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

I bloody bet she would (and did!)

You wouldn’t enjoy it.

Yes exactly, and if she’s breastfeeding she’ll then get people saying she mustn’t have a drink because of that 🙄

For part of my pregnancy, I was buying one miniature bottle of wine per week (the 187ml ones) and usually drinking it over two separate days. It was fine, but I love my child so much I now wish I hadn’t!

I'd be paranoid that I'd go into labour and baby or I wouldn't be as "strong" because of a drop of alcohol... Probably irrational, but that's my feeling.

That said, while I haven't been drinking any drinks for myself, I have been enjoying sips of dh's (just like calories in his chips...) If I combined all the sips I'd take, I'd probably have a very small/half glass myself.

That’s called Survivors Bias. Look it up.

Im not begrudging anyone a glass of wine while pregnant btw. But drinking every single night when pregnant? Surely you can see that’s outwith the realms of a normal relationship with alcohol?

No

You’ve opened up a can of over zealous MN worms now! how dare you produce perfectly healthy children whilst having a glass of wine pregnant.

Goes to get the 🍿

I ate liver, drank Guinness, blue cheese, runny eggs, I had hot spas, even went to a farm and petted sheep and goats whilst pregnant, all things you’re warned about. I survived!!!!

You drank alcohol every single night when you were pregnant?

There was a draft resolution by the World Health Organisation. Essentially the idea is that alchohol in early pregnancy can affect the fetus (even before a woman knows she is pregnant) so women of childbearing age shouldn’t be drinking at all.

I think if you are going to get down to that level of risk elimination then mens sperm quality can be affected if they drink regularly in the six months before conception. Oddly enough the curtailment of freedom of men doesnt seem to feature. Surely if alchohol can cause poor quality sperm potentially causing birth defects then any man hoping to have sex with no a woman of child bearing age should be abstaining too just in case?

cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/alcohol/action-plan-on-alcohol_first-draft-final_formatted.pdf?sfvrsn=b690edb0_1&download=true

There was a draft resolution by the World Health Organisation. Essentially the idea is that alchohol in early pregnancy can affect the fetus (even before a woman knows she is pregnant) so women of childbearing age shouldn’t be drinking at all.

I think if you are going to get down to that level of risk elimination then mens sperm quality can be affected if they drink regularly in the six months before conception. Oddly enough the curtailment of freedom of men doesnt seem to feature. Surely if alchohol can cause poor quality sperm potentially causing birth defects then any man hoping to have sex with no a woman of child bearing age should be abstaining too just in case?

cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/alcohol/action-plan-on-alcohol_first-draft-final_formatted.pdf?sfvrsn=b690edb0_1&download=true

It’s absolutely fine! I had a few proseccos when I was pregnant. Defo didnt hit the spot like it did when I wasn’t pregnant but it was absolutely fine.

I think it’s ok to have and enjoy. The only reason I never had even a little during my pregnancy is because I knew I would want more, and that was obviously a no go. Enjoy the last few days/weeks of pregnancy OP!

Be quiet

And alcohol police are out giving advice🙈

If anyone on here had worked with children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder will now they didn’t get it from their mother drinking a very small amount of wine on one sole occasion…

Not to derail the thread but wtf?!!! That's absolute madness. Do you have a source?

@baby2c OP by this time of night, hope you have either enjoyed your small glass of wine or not if it didn't sit well with you.

If you have not drunk throughout then why start now.
But up to you .

It's a wonder everyone survived their mother's or grandmother's pregnancy to end up posting on here. You can guarantee they weren't being chided for a single glass of wine.

I'd have drunk it. My doctor told us to break open the champagne when I was pregnant - I'd had a miscarriage and it had taken some years to conceive again. This was the late 70s when people were not so angst ridden - pregnant women were even recommended to eat cheese and eggs!

I think sipping a small glass of wine is fine. I'm a believer that the odd thing here or there should be okay - we're built to be a bit more robust than that.
With my first, I didn't know I was pregnant until 17 weeks. I was young, went to a festival, drank, smoked.. did all sorts I shouldn't have been doing. I was so worried when I found out but thankfully he was absolutely fine! Similarly you hear of mum's not changing their lifestyle throughout their pregnancy and go on to have healthy babies.
I wouldn't encourage actively drinking but I don't think the odd one will hurt.

My obstetrician, very old school, had three kids herself. She told me she very occasionally had a glass of wine in the third trimester. If you've not had a drink at all for the entire pregnancy, and have a few mouthfuls now, it'll be fine.

Thankfully they’re fine but needing a glass of wine every night, even in pregnancy, sounds like an alcoholic to me

Just wait?

my dc are 15 and 19 and I had a small glass of wine every night when I was pregnant. They are fine, and it was fine in those days