To worry about the wine in my coq au vin

[perhapsabitparanoid]

I put a coq au vin in the slow cooker this morning, and chucked in a good half bottle of red wine.

Now I'm worrying. I'm ttc, so off the alcohol. I wouldn't normally worry about wine in food, since the alcohol usually boils off if you have it simmering for a while. But I have no idea how hot the slow cooker is (medium setting). The sides do seem to be bubbling, which might be the alcohol coming off... But even if it does boil off, the top is fairly well sealed - so won't it just evaporate back in?!

I'm not sure I'm worried enough about it to make something completely different to eat tonight (unless the MN jury categorically tell me that I should!), but I could go easy on the liquid?

It's pretty likely I'm not even pregnant, but I could be.

Am I being completely paranoid? WWYD?

YABU. And paranoid.

Why on earth would you need to be teatotal to TTC?

I'm pregnant and would eat the Coq au vin. But then that's just me. :) Go easy on the liquid if you're stressing, but personally, I wouldn't worry.

I hope your not ttcing for too long - it's going to be a stressful time for you if you're going to worry this much.
Good luck.

evaporate back in condense back in

By the time it has finished cooking it will have all boiled off anyway - fret ye not and try and relax, babies are conceived after drunken night shags all the time so a bit in a SC won't hurt. Good luck with TTC :)

Justabitparanoid? Ya think?

I wouldn't pour the liquid into pint glasses and gulp it down but other than that I would not give it a second thought.

Isn't it 6 weeks before baby even takes anything across the placenta?

Light it, just to be on the safe side

It will be fine.

I'm fairly sure cooking wine for hours gets rid of the alcohol

I hope so anyway as I've eaten beef stew mad with copious amounts of wine before going to work and I'm a nurse

I spent the whole weekend drunk when i got pg with dc3

Not a problem...eat it, it's fine.

You can drink when you're pregnant you know, in moderation. So a bit of wine in a meal when you're ttc is fine.

If you generate this amount of stress hormones over such a ludicrous question as the above (you'll be completely fine to drink the wine let alone however much you'd get with the meal - which won't all boil off but a lot of it will) then you're almost certainly doing more to harm your chances of conception than anything else.

Stress changes hormone releases in your body, and you don't want that (not surprising the body doesn't want the additional demands of a growing baby when the world is stressful).

CHILL OUT!

tethersend - fantastic idea!

Is it really 6 weeks before the baby takes anything across the placenta? I've been thinking that I can have some alcohol during the first half of each month... but didn't like the idea of it once the little dude or dudette has hooked in! I did also read that drinking can make it harder to conceive... although I've possibly been reading too much scare-mongering stuff!

God help you when you're PG! Honestly love, chill out a little. Many of us not only concieve while pissed but get pissed in the first 6 weeks because we don't know we have conceived (I fell off my mate's patio, ripped to the tits on gin and red wine, not knowing I was about a fortnight pregnant - my DS is now 7 and on the gifted register).

You're not actually pregnant, just ttcing and you are worrying about this??? The cooking will cook off most of the alcohol. You are most likely not pregnant. If you did happen to get pregnant this cycle, the embryo would be living off its yolk and not your blood supply until the placenta is in place. And plenty of people drink moderate amounts through pregnancy anyway. The advice on this changes every couple of years depending on whether the govt thinks women are intelligent enough to figure out what a unit is.

I'm a long term ttcer and would go mad living my life as pre-pregnant for years on end. How pointless!

OK - seems fairly unanimous! I shall stop worrying, and enjoy dinner tonight.
Thanks all!

Food needs to cook for approximately 3 hours for the alcohol to evaporate. And that needs to be at above 78C (the temperature at which alcohol evaporates), which most slow cookers probably don't sustain, especially if it's on low.

I have no idea why people still perpetuate this myth.

Stop obsessing. Enjoy your dinner!

After ttc 15 months the month I stopped living like a pg women was the month I got pg.

God knows how much I drank up to about 4 weeks pregnant.

My advice is therefore to get hammered while you have the chance

Yes, it's weeks before the umbilical is functioning, I'm guessing you know your cycle well enough to be testing within a day of a missed period so stop worrying, eat the coq au vin and have a nice glass of red on the side to boot.

Go wild and have a glass of wine with your dinner too.

It really won't hurt.

TTC can take 1 month or a year or whatever so don't drive yourself nuts worrying about it. It will become a stressful process if you give yourself so many things to worry about.

I may even have been rather drunk before i realised I was pregnant
with both my children.

When I had DS1 25 years ago, no-one bothered about the odd glass of wine. We were advised against spirits, but apart from that, everything in moderation - and that included soft cheese, prawns, liver, dyeing your hair...
I accept that advice changes for good reasons, but really - take a chill pill.

Most of it will have evaporated. There might be some left, but don't worry. I have it on good authority from a medical friend that FAS kids are normally born to people with significant alcohol problems, not people who have the odd glass. Enjoy your dinner .