@Mumto1w, that’s a tricky situation. Personally, I’d lean towards keeping it and go for the early scan. I had one with my first due to miscarriage history and it was a lovely feeling seeing that little heartbeat. With alcohol in pregnancy, it’s recommended for no alcohol at all at any point - however, its very common for women to not know prior to a positive test and is unlikely at that point to do a huge amount as the exposure is assumed to be much less. It is associated with miscarriage, but not drinking from this point would lessen that risk. It’s a hard one to study because you can’t separate it from other factors eg. Environmental factors, parental health factors, the fact much of the evidence is self-reported. Lots of people assume heavy drinking throughout pregnancy can cause Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, but actually any amount of alcohol (after a positive test at around 4 weeks) is a risk factor for neurological changes in the baby’s development and FAS is a spectrum - it essentially depends what stage the baby is at when the mum drinks. It’s only just becoming understood (there’s only one centre that is equipped to diagnose older children in the UK, even though the majority have no facial feature effects), but essentially, most doctors would see alcohol consumption prior to an early positive as much lower risk for foetal development but carrying some miscarriage risk, and anything after this as foetal development risk. A large number of women drink before they know, because they couldn’t have known before, so making positive changes from that point is the important part 😊
@TheFamousMrEd Sorry to hear AF came, fingers crossed for the next cycle!
@TrainIsMoving, We’re trying now, as I’m at the flashing clearblue face stage. 🤞I’d forgotten how long the TWW feels! Was a surprise last cycle when time seemed to drag and I felt so disappointed when AF came. Premom is expecting me to ovulate on the 25th, but we’ll see what happens 🙈