To have one small glass of red wine at 38 weeks pregnant?

A small glass of wine will not harm your baby.

Go for it ! Every development is finished by now . Baby is just growing . The small amount of alcohol in a single glass of wine won’t make a difference

Go for it ! Every development is finished by now . Baby is just growing . The small amount of alcohol in a single glass of wine won’t make a difference

Maybe it was just her doctor telling her it because she had awful sickness all the way through that made her miserable, I don’t know

Realistically though most people who will be drinking i.n pregnancy will be doing so very early on before they even know they are pregnant. I certainly did with my eldest until I got a positive pregnancy test at 6 weeks. Not red wine though I detest it lol

Cool! Wine o’clock it is!

I also wouldn't give the baby a bottle of water ...

Its really not the same. The amount of alcohol in a small glass of wine won't affect baby at all.

My midwife suggested I go for half a pint of Guinness at the pub next to the doctors surgery, after one of my routine check ups (low iron). That was in 2010.

I mean i wouldn't simply cos it was red wine, a tiny glass of white wine though and yeah no problem! It's been a few years since I was pregnant so obviously check the latest advice from the medical people (im NOT a medical person) but my midwife and consultant during my last very difficult pregnancy both advised that a small glass of wine at 36 weeks as a one off was no problem, I was going to a wedding and whilst I'd intended to not drink i asked out of curiosity. I ended up having a white wine spritzer that was about 80% lemonade and it was bloody lovely! Good luck with the last couple of weeks of your pregnancy x

And the person who said ice and coca cola in red wine, there are no acceptable rude words for that.

So what is the risk? No one has actually come out with that

What? What does you having no pain relief and no tearing have to do with having a drink during pregnancy? Are you trying to suggest that you having one drink led to you not tearing?! Bonkers 😂

It would be a no from me, I remember the cravings well. But you're at the home stretch, not long now why break the abstaining you've done for foetal health now?

I’m not shocked that your mum drinking port didn’t kill you, just that anyone would think port is a good source of iron, out of all the things out there that are rich in iron.

I 100% would not

Well, I lived to tell the tale.

I would, and did with my first. I was 38 weeks when DH and I cooked ourselves a really special steak dinner as a last Friday evening that we’d be having for a while as I was booked in for a planned caesarean the following week. I then went into labour that evening so had to go into hospital to have the caesarean early. For some reason (probably just being pregnant is enough) I then panicked about it and kept hysterically telling any medical staff who came near me “but I’ve had a glass of wine!!!!!”, and they clearly thought I was nuts and just wanted to know the time I’d finished eating and drinking because they wanted a six hour gap before taking me down to theatre. The doctors and nurses all thought it was fine.

One thing that I always find somewhat uneven on MN with this topic, is that quite often, posters passionately believe that any amount of junk food/nutrition-free crap/processed shite is absolutely fine during pregnancy, but a small glass of red wine makes you irresponsible.

Of course it's fine, OP. Glad you're enjoying a glass.

I wouldn’t but DH wouldn’t be just drinking one so he could drive to the hospital if needed either. We used to be big drinkers but both would have abstained in these circumstances.

At 38 weeks pregnant with my first I went into labour at my bestfriends wedding. I had a glass of Prosecco I don’t even know why but I did. 6 hours later my first dd was born no pain relief, no tears amazing experience. Second dd Christmas I was so pissed off at being fat again 2 weeks before due date had a glass of wine daughter came no pain relief, back to back no tears. Third dd my waters broke on my birthday and I was ridiculously upset I was going to share my birthday. Went to nandos as you do with waters trickling down my legs, had a beer, dd came 4 hours later no pain relief no tears weighing close to 10.5lb. My kids are now 19, 14 and 13 and perfect in every way.

Relax.

Some of these comments are batshit 😂

I’m glad you listened to reason OP! You’re fine! I did the same.

Enjoy your icy red (bit weird, soz) and good luck with the coming weeks x

There isn’t much iron in port so completely pointless.

Personally I don’t know how she stomached it 🤣 but she did

Except a single cigarette can have a negative affect on your health, so smoking one a week would unlikely to have a ‘negligible impact on your health’. Sorry, a glass of wine in pregnancy is one thing but that’s a stupid sentence. And I say that as someone who used to fucking love cigarettes.

Anecdotal fallacy.

You’re all welcome to keep poisoning your unborn foetuses. The rest of us will continue following medical advice.