To ask if you drunk alcohol during your pregnancy?

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& if you did how much/often? Or what your opinions are on moderate drinking during pregnancy?

I had the odd small glass of red wine right at the end of my third trimester with DC1. Didn’t feel like it before that and was too nervous, really.

Was way too sick with DC2 to even consider it.

I had the odd glass of wine . Many women do . But not the best place to say it 😀

No - even the smell turned my stomach. Dh bought me alcohol free alcohol, and even that made me gag.

Was shocked at the amount of people who tried to pressure me to drink actual alcohol when I was visibly pregnant though, and acted like I was being dull by refusing.

I also had a few drinks when BF . Probably more actually I only ever got tipsy once though . I also smoked a cigarette a day when PG with both . I’m not proud about that at all . Have finally given up . I am
Just being honest as I think not every single pregnant women is easily able to stop every single addictive vice .

Yes,Guinness. My nan drank it, and she said it was good. My nan had 8 kids so i wa happy to listen to her.

About less than half a shot glass of something- every now and again. Probably once a fortnight or less frequently on average. Drinks range from whiskey, white wine and fancy gin.

I have a drink once or twice a week. Sometimes a g&t, sometimes a Guinness and sometimes as wine spritzer. My midwife said if you want one have one. Just don't have more.

Only before I knew I was pregnant I would've been about two weeks. After that nothing, just didn't see the point. Professionally I've worked with families with adopted/fostered children with fetal alcohol syndrome and the research is really unclear in terms of how much alcohol and at what stage there is a negative impact developmentally , it just didn't seem worth it for the odd drink.

i didn’t drink at all with my first - but i wasn’t old enough to drink then anyway. with my second child i didn’t know i was pregnant until i was 19 weeks gone so i had several binge drinking sessions during that time. he was absolutely fine, actually the heaviest of all my 3 kids. with my third i had one bottle of berry cider one night because i craving one. nothing else aside from that.

never ive had 2 pregnancies i shouldnt have had(infertile as ive never had a period and im 38 and no 2 took 4 years of fertility tablets)

im teetotal anyway and always have been

i knew of a woman in my old village(small village where everyone knows your business) that had a baby in 03 with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and was taken off her at birth and the gran is bringing him up
seeing that boy grown up severally disabled(i have 2 disabled my self)due to his mother fault for 10 years is enough to put anyone off,even if its bit of drink here and there

I had a small (125ml, I measured carefully) glass of wine once or twice a week from the 2nd trimester onwards (nothing from BFP to 14 weeks)

I’m a midwife and read the research for myself and was happy with that choice based on the availabile evidence. There is no real evidence that alcohol at those levels causes any harm whatsoever.

Discussed it with the doctors at work too and no-one batted an eyelid.

No alcohol pg.none.nadda

@tor8181 there must have been other issues with the mother other than the child being born disabled for the removal at birth.
I have also never and of a child being diagnosed with FASD at birth

I also had a few drinks when BF . Probably more actually blush

But the baby gets pretty much nothing whilst breastfeeding - it’s nothing to worry about.

In pregnancy the alcohol passes unfiltered through the placenta and the amount in maternal blood is the same as in fetal blood (pretty much).

In breastfeeding the alcohol gets metabolised by the liver before passing into the maternal blood stream (first pass metabolism). Milk has the same amount of alcohol as the maternal blood which isn’t really that much, is it? Then the baby also metabolises that before it reaches its blood stream. There’s more alcohol in the historical “colic remedies”.

Half a shot of baileys in a hot chocolate on Christmas Day.

And it was bloody lovely.

^^This re alcohol and bf. You have to be really properly drunk for it to be a problem. IIRC large amounts may temporarily reduce the amount of milk available (or was it suppress the let-down reflex? Read on kellymom years and years ago). I didn't drink much, if at all, for the first few weeks/months of bf, but after that I did (as far away timewise from feeds as poss, but not always). I bf for five and a half years straight with my older two (4.5 and 3y respectively), including some tandem-feeding overlap, and no. 3 went on for three and a half years, so it would have been a long time not to have a drink at all.

I went off wine immediately. I found that a single pub measure of gin & long tonic on a Friday night helped me relax & sleep well.

But no more or I felt very sick.

Binge drinked until 3 months as I didn't know I was pregnant - was drinking all through the bank holidays at Easter / May and every weekend (both nights) as I was out in nightclubs and parties

Found out I was pregnant and stopped - then had a small glass of champagne Christmas Day and a baileys hot chocolate Boxing Day

I haven't touched a drop throughout my pregnancy. Don't even eat food that has been prepared with any alcohol in it. I wouldn't dream of it.

When I'm BF I will allow myself to drink small amounts, as long as I'm not planning to feed directly afterwards. So I guess I'm a big fat hypocrite lol.

Even if there is a very small risk, why take it for something completely unnecessary? I had been told due to infertility pregnancy was very unlikely for me (Hebe the surprise finding out), so want willing to take any chances at all. I can take our leave alcohol and actually only had my first alcoholic drink Friday night since DS was born in November, for no reason other than I haven't felt the need

I did a lot of research into this as I decided I was either going to not drink at all, or if I was going to drink I would only do it if I wasn't going to harm the baby or feel horrendously guilty. There's no research available (in 2015 at least) to say that light to moderate drinking (sorry I can't remember exactly how much that was specified at) causes short or long term problems. In a large published meta-analysis of all the available data at the time, the only significant difference in children of mothers who drank a small to moderate amount in pregnancy was that they had better balance after a few years than those of abstaining mothers.

I'm 32 weeks with child 3 and have had an occasional drink with all three. I know some people will be horrified but I'm fine with it. As a PP has said, the blanket ban on alcohol is largely due to our issues with binge drinking as a nation. In my thoroughly unscientific opinion I can't see how a glass of nice wine is worse than the cans of coke, regular McDonald's and other nasties with no warnings attached that people are comfortable having in pregnancy.

OP what are you hoping to get out of this thread? MN is notoriously bad for people thinking if u have any more than a sniff of Bailey's at Xmas you are a raging alcoholic. Bottom line is......don't get off your face every night but the human body is amazing and if you want a glass of wine every so often, it won't affect your baby

Whoever quoted this study:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376871619300535

Did you actually read past the title? They found unclear results as there were so many confounding factors to each study involved. In the one study where higher SES mothers were used they found a positive correlation to mental health and maternal alcohol consumption. I don't for a second suggest that alcohol is going to improve a baby's wellbeing, but this is just one example of many in the article which show that other factors are in play (drug use, familial alcohol abuse, poverty...) which are known to have an adverse affect through stress and hormonal reactions.

This is certainly not a study suggesting that alcohol consumption in itself is dangerous at low levels.

Op stop giving yourself the shits. If you want to drink a little bit, do your research and enjoy it. If it's going to make you feel shit just don't do it.