To ask if you drank alcohol during pregnancy

[Butterflyflower1234]

I'm curious as to people thoughts on alcohol during pregnancy?

I was always of the opinion that I wouldn't touch a single drop of alcohol during pregnancy but now I'm wondering would it be significantly harmful to have say one small glass of wine with dinner every so often (less than once a fortnight).

Why would you bet your child's health on 'probably' won't have FAS?

I bet my child’s health on “probably” all sorts of things. “Probably” won’t get run over. “Probably” won’t get food poisoning. “Probably” won’t fall down a sink hole. Everything and anything is a risk. We’re obligated to make sensible choices, not to try to eliminate any and all possibility of the unlikeliest things occurring.

I didn’t have alcohol at all but then I generally don’t drink aside from the odd occasion.
I’d raise an eyebrow at anyone who can’t go a length of time without an alcoholic beverage, pregnant or not.
I’m sure it won’t do any harm to have the odd drink, but why do you need to? That’s what I don’t get.

However I recognise everyone is different and so be it!

Denial is a key component of alcoholism. BTW you definitely can safely attend AA meetings while pregnant

I’m sure it won’t do any harm to have the odd drink, but why do you need to?

If you’re sure it won’t do any harm, why wouldn’t you just have one? No one needs dessert but plenty of people have it because they fancy it.

Speaking as a teetotaller, from where I'm sitting it's the ones who think the odd one now and again and potentially 20 units a week are comparable risk level that look the ones who could do with AA.

Why would you bet your child's health on 'probably' won't have FAS?

But I'm not betting that my child 'probably' won't have FAS. If I drink a very small amount, very occasionally I know 100% that my child won't have it. There is no 'probably' about it. They will categorically not have FAS as a result of that level of consumption.

I was pregnant on millennium eve so had a glass of champagne then. I think had the very odd glass of wine on a special occasion but nothing much

No, not a drop.

There isn't a lot of evidence either way but my thought process is that we share a blood supply and the placenta doesn't filter out alcohol so if I get a bit tipsy after one, the baby does as well. That can't be great for a developing brain.

I wouldn't get my toddler tipsy, why would I let my unborn child?

I had half a prosecco on Christmas day with my lunch

With dd i had half a glass of cava on xmas day. It was all mil allowed me to have but best cava i ever tasted. Nothing else.

It was all mil allowed me to have but best cava i ever tasted.

You were happy as a mentally competent adult to have someone else treat you like a child?

Although i don’t drink, the odd few glasses will not cause FAS
As for the autism comment, that’s just offensive

No, I didn't. But I was, and still am, an occasional drinker (literally one drink every month or less frequently) so drinking during pregnancy didn't occur to me.

@bingbangbing

*I challenge anybody to read this and drink during pregnancy:

depts.washington.edu/fasdpn/pdfs/astley-oster2013.pdf

It was written by a doctor who specialises in FAS.*

Emily Oyster did a literature review of a range of studies. The author in your link is describing self-reported alcohol intake from mother's of children with FAS. I highly doubt that any of those women were honest about their use of alcohol, sadly. The link is also talking about one drink a day, which no one here is advocating.

Bold fail, opps

In my first pregnancy I drank one glass of wine at my own wedding and one each at my two cousins' weddings.
Second pregnancy there were no weddings so I didn't drink, same with third. But then, I don't really drink alcohol anyway.

I didnt. miscarried precious pregnancy and was not prepared to chance anything. you are not going to get any definitive answer on this question, people are either for having a couple or definitley not. I'm in the definitley not camp purely because I didnt see the point but then I was very anxious anyway and ate/drank very well during my pregnancy. I'm glad I did, made me feel I'd given my baby the best chance

I'm practically tee total as I can't stand the taste of alcohol unless it's disguised in something sweet (baileys, amaretto, schnapps etc). I did have a small glass of bubbles to celebrate the end of the first trimester and announcing the pregnancy though. I was ceremoniously opening the bottle and the cork shot out and hit me in the eye. I couldn't see for about 2 minutes. That alcohol was dangerous but not through drinking it!! 😂

Im sure being very overweight when pregnant is also not good for the foetus. And isnt pethidine an opiate?

I drank throughout all 3 of mine, except the first two trimesters when it made me sick. Mind you back then it wasn't worried about unless you were an alcoholic. None of them have any developmental.issues caused by it.

Sorry first two trimesters of my first pregnancy.

Not a single drop!!
I will never understand the obsession of ppl over alcohol that they can't go a few months without...

I'm not much of a drinker anyway, but I looked into it and felt comfortable having the odd drink after the first trimester - usually fizzy wine on special occasions or a glass of red wine if we went out for a nice meal. Expecting Better by Emily Oster is a useful book to guide your decisions around pregnancy advice.

Yes. Once a week maybe, a small glass of something. I have a healthy attitude towards risk and parenting.

SuperMumTum are you suggesting people that felt uncomfortable drinking have an unhealthy attitude towards risk? not sure that's correct