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

Of course not unreasonable - your DH is a weirdo, though. Why do you put ice in red wine? It's supposed to be drunk at room temperature. Btw I drank half a bottle of red wine the Christmas I was pregnant with DD (born April) - no ill effects so far (she is 40 and earns 6 figures).

You managed to one up it with a single sentence!

None of that changes the fact that there is no known safe level in pregnancy and that is what women should be told. They are then rightly free to make their choice based on that.

Medical staff should not be encouraging it, and in the pregnancies I went private for and therefore had a choice, I’d have changed midwives if they did.

I've changed my mind. YABU to drink red wine.

I stuck to champagne when I was pregnant.

Exactly! The last thing i wanted after my c section was a glass of wine!!

My baby didn't reliably sleep through the night until he was ONE. A glass of red when you've been woken up 5 times the night before just doesn't hit right.

It's hardly the same!

The WHO suggested thst woman of childbearing age so 18-50 shouldn’t drink at all so as not to impact a potential fetus. It was even less popular than iced red

US agency's alcohol advice for women is mocked https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35493188

No, I wouldn't and never did. There is no known safe amount. Even if it's unlikely to do any harm, why risk it for a glass of wine? I just never thought it worth it.

I really don't think one small glass at this stage will be at all harmful.

And then people will be bleating about not drinking while breastfeeding

I’m not sure what I’m more disgusted at OP.
the fact that you’re drinking Malbec in any season other than Autumn/winter… or you have ice in it…
im currently on the sober train as I went out middle of July and had a hang over for a month…
when I break, I’m going to have to be prepared to have my mind blown and try it with ice in October 🤣
hope you had a lovely ‘small’ glass, ignore those that are judging and enjoy!!

Not sure why some are saying just wait and ‘enjoy’ it after, ‘celebrate’ with a glass. OP will barely get chance to finish a glass of water after for a very good while let alone enjoy a celebratory drink in peace - unless you were talking waiting months afterwards. Time to enjoy is right now.

Red wine with Pepsi max and ice

Ita amazing

My neglected and poisoned foetus is now nearly 15 and 6 feet tall and thriving. Poor, poor child.

Good lord, this thread is illuminating😂

Your baby will come to no harm from one glass of red. At this gestation you could probably sink a whole bottle of red without any ill effects on the fetus, save for if you needed any surgery or analgesics - and even then the negative impact would be on you not on your baby.

People really do need much better science education in the UK.

I do think the current obsession with the danger of having an
occasional alcoholic drink during pregnancy is scaremongering. I drank like a fish for the first three months, had no idea I was pregnant. Had a very healthy 10lb boy. Of course drinking to excess during pregnancy is wrong, but the occasional glass of wine a couple of times a month is not going to cause an issue, anyone saying otherwise is being rediculous.

I did and would.

Your baby is almost fully developed and as a pp said your organs will filter it out before it reaches your baby.

Your husband sounds very thoughtful! I had to beg my then 'D'H not to get completely shitfaced when I was due.

Hope it all goes smoothly! (And enjoy your chilled wine!)

But that can’t be changed once done. It’s a very different thing whether you choose to drink when you know you are pregnant. when you are advised that it is not known how much is safe.

But a lot of people drink before they know they are pregnant. And that's when the baby starts actually forming

We have more medical knowledge now and we do know there are risks, but as it would be unethical to test, it’s best that drinking in pregnancy is advised against. What women choose to do with that advice is their choice.

This is the funniest thread!

I wonder if it's a generational thing...my mum was instructed by her GP to drink a pint of Guinness a day through all of her 4 pregnancies - and she followed the instruction, even though she hated Guinness. We all turned out fine

I'm not saying that I would recommend that myself, but I do think everyone should chill a little. A glass of wine isn't going to do anyone any harm

No, I wouldn’t be comfortable drinking at all. I didn’t drink at all once I knew I was pregnant, if you want anecdotal comments - but maybe medical advice would make you feel more comfortable with deciding.

My BFs mum was told to drink a small glass of Guinness every day when she was pregnant in the 70s. I think we’ve gone from one extreme to another.

There are other risks too, it can increase the risk of SIDS for example. I’m not saying one glass would harm but it’s just not known what amount is safe so my point is that it’s ridiculous and irresponsible for a midwife to actually encourage it.

@Spookyspaghetti Re your AI graphic: the alcohol in a small glass of wine will usually be mostly metabolised by the liver (“hepatic first pass”), and only after that would any left over go into the bloodstream. Obviously if she continued to drink several more glasses, the level in the bloodstream would then rise, but one small glass produces negligible blood alcohol.

Please don’t get your info from AI - it isn’t a reliable source of medical information.

(“Hepatic first pass”: since the blood filtering through the GI tract is collected in the portal vein, all substances absorbed with blood must first enter the liver prior to distribution to other organs. The liver metabolises any substances in the GI tract, sometimes to such an extent that only a very small amount of active substance emerges from the liver to the rest of the circulatory system. This is why many medications and drugs are given by injection/transdermal/IV routes instead of orally.)