To have a small drink whilst pregnant?

[PayingMyWayYouSay]

I'm just about 20 weeks now. Baby fine. Lovely little boy.

DH and I going to the pub that sells food this evening. Would I be unreasonable to have 1, just 1, WKD with my food?

DH is extremely against it and starts protesting in full when I even mention drinking alcohol

I tried to take a sip of his Fruity Cider today and there was a lot of "Why would you do that?"

He thinks it's harmful and isn't worth a marginal risk.

I know it's my body but it is his baby too so I think he's entitled to express his feelings.

Surely 1. Something unit is okay with food?

It won't be a regular thing, it's just something I fancy.

Their bodies, their choices - but when they're pregnant it isn't JUST their bodies is it?!

The fetus isn't a person until its born. Obviously I'd prefer that everyone made sensible choices that were good for their babies but it is absolutely the mother's decision about what they do to their bodies.

I think making an informed choice is key, which is what I have done and is why I am happy to have both a very small drink on the odd occasion in the second half of pregnancy, and to have the odd drink when BF.

And that is an absolutely fine, informed choice. And your right to do so.

It's your body not his. I'm sure you won't harm anyone.

Peng - if you're saying going about daily activities is the same as drinking alcohol, then you have a problem.

I really wouldn't worry about it op.

You will always get a few posters who get shittyand goady....being pregnant and drinking wkd is very Jeremy Kyle....for example.

Ignore ignore ignore. If you want one then have one! Listen to YOUR judgement by anyone else's

The fetus isn't a person until its born - well I think that's just ridiculous. I'm pro-choice but think if a woman chooses to continue with a pregnancy they should, for 9 months, consider more than her own selfish wants.

Isn't there a non alcoholic WKD now? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere.

I just find it absolutely bizarre that people trust a random economist who went to Harvard over carefully produced public health guidelines.

I find it absolutely bizarre that you think public health guidelines are carefully produced to reflect scientific evidence and not human behaviour and social economics

Gold star for the nice compliant citizen though

The fetus isn't a person until its born - well I think that's just ridiculous.

It's what the law says.

I would hate to be pregnant now, everyone is so judgemental and it seems as though the pregnancy police have their eye on you 24/7. When I was pregnant with DD 26 years ago I quite often had half a pint of bitter, it helped with my indigestion! We used to go to our local almost every night, and when DD was born I got a card and present off the regulars!

Just a bit pointless really.

I'm.not talking about the law - I'm talking about your obvious lack of care for your unborn children

Gold star for the nice compliant citizen though

Go and polish your tinfoil hat.

I haven't and don't think I will but don't think one will harm and definitely wouldn't judge.

You will get mixed views on this.

I got through the day with a fair amount of coffee when pregnant with DS2 because I couldn't afford to be fatigued with a toddler to run around after. I also had a glass of wine at Xmas and New Years.

Someone I worked with drank red bulls through her pregnancies as she worked shifts and slowly worked on cutting down and then quitting fags each time.

I get sick of people putting the damn boot in on every single mother who wasn't an utter paragon of virtue throughout their pregnancies.

I quite often had half a pint of bitter, it helped with my indigestion! - thankgod there's now Rennie and gaviscon eh

There is zero evidence that the odd glass of wine (or indeed WKD for that matter) does any harm. Zero.

tin foil hat

I'm not the one with serious paranoia about the world falling in when a woman has a drink

The fetus isn't a person until its born - well I think that's just ridiculous

There are good reasons for a foetus not to have personhood. Think about what would happen if they did - women would be reduced to mere baby vessels.

I sound unhinged? For thinking that women should be able to abstain from alcohol and cigarettes for 9 months whilst pregnant?
Quite an ironic statement to make about me considering you're so sure "I know nothing about you other than this one comment", yet you are able to make a psychiatric diagnosis of me, based on the same.