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partner drinking a bottle of wine while 'babysitting'

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newmum000 · 27/04/2014 20:19

Out for the first time since baby was born (5 months old). Only out from 8.15-11.15pm. Partner drinks a bottle of wine while at home looking after our little one (she took a while to get to sleep but did go down eventually, apparently - I'm sure he mainly drank the bottle after she was in bed).

AIBU to be p*ssed off?

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TheoneFKAMNwidowed · 29/04/2014 20:19

Alcohol inhibits the brain and your thought process. Why would you want to decrease that by pouring a drug into your body. Its not an outlandish accusation. It's a fact and not a hush hush conspiratorial fact, a true well known fact

Shewhowines · 29/04/2014 20:28

Yes but it doesn't render you incapable unless you drink too much. What constitutes too much varies from person to person.
Even if you are tipsy, most of us would be capable of dealing with most situations that would arise when a child is in bed asleep

I don't even know why i'm arguing this. Bf meant I wasn't drinking at 5 months.

cosikitty · 02/05/2014 16:42

Not even most pubs serve 125mls as a glass of wine though. 3 large glasses is a bottle. A bottle of wine drunk in an hour would leave most people somewhat tipsy. But a bottle drunk by a man (who are in general able to drink much more than women due to bodyweight) who is used to drinking, and over a period of time longer than an hour (maybe 3 hrs) wouldn't be so drunk.
And what emergencies happen to sleeping babies without warning anyway?

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