Few sips of red wine when pregnant?

[ShutUpAlex]

Did anybody have small amounts of wine when pregnant? I know a lot of people have one small glass a week, but I have found that 3 or 4 sips of red wine in the evening makes my morning sickness just completely vanish! However, those sips added up each day (or at least until the morning sickness is gone) may add up more than what I think.

Would I be u reasonable to do this?
Did anyone else find this helped? I’ve tried sickness bands, ginger everything etc but can’t shift the nausea.

Personally wouldn’t do it.

It's not recommended by anyone. I wouldn't personally.

But as with anything it's about risk management. If you want to take the ?potential risk of drinking alcohol to your baby to avoid sickness that's your decision.

I wouldn’t do it.

I’ve only done it the once so far, btw. My partner had a glass and I had a few sips of his and I had no sickness at all for the rest of the evening.

I wouldn't. As you say, it adds up. Before you know it, a few sips could become a glass.

It’s really fine. It’s a few sips. Expecting Better by Emily Oster is a good read on the subject.

Personally I’m having a small glass of good wine with a meal on a Friday and Saturday night. I’m 20 weeks. I except some people will get all judgemental and up in arms about that but it’s a choice I’m comfortable with having done a lot of reading on the subject, and confident that the amount will have no impact on the baby whatsoever. I expect someone will be along in a minute to tell me I’m giving him FAS though.

Is there none alcoholic wine? Try that?

Non-alcohol wine is rank.

Non alcoholic wine doesn’t have the same effect.

Thanks @SmidgenofaPigeon I will give that a read!

As long as you're genuinely being strict about the quantities and not using it as an excuse to sneak whole glasses regularly you'll be fine.

@ShutUpAlex

I’ve only done it the once so far, btw. My partner had a glass and I had a few sips of his and I had no sickness at all for the rest of the evening.

So possibly a coincidence then?

Yes possibly a coincidence, but I was going to buy one of those small bottles of wine and just have a few sips when I’m feeling sick and see if it works! After 3 months of it I’m pretty miserable.

It's not worth it. Not because it might cause damage, but because if anything does go wrong you'll blame yourself forever. I know this from experience.

I would! A few sips will be fine.

If your sickness is that bad go to the drs instead of drinking

@PinkCookie11 do you not think I’ve already done that? Come on now.

@ShutUpAlex you didn’t say you had, what did they give you for it?

I had a few sips of my husbands wine pretty often and the occasional small glass. They say none mostly to be a) over cautious and b) people have poor understanding of what a small glass of wine looks like.

I also totally recommend Emily Oster.

Nothing. There’s nothing for nausea, just vomiting.

Agree with @SmidgenofaPigeon - Expecting Better is a very sane read on this subject. I am also 20 weeks and while I don’t drink wine terribly often, I will have a (measured!) 125ml (so standard ‘small’ glass) of nice wine with DH on Fri and Sat nights every 2-3 weeks, as I enjoy it and it means he has someone to share a bottle with. Apparently there is no evidence of harm with up to one small glass a day, although I personally probably wouldn’t test this by drinking that amount daily.

It’s also fine to have a drink if you end up breastfeeding - the issue would be if you got drunk and couldn’t look after the baby rather than the actual alcohol exposure which is negligible.

The NHS guidelines are none because actually a lot of people have real trouble understanding what a unit is. So they might pour a massive glass and say oh that’s only one unit. Safer to say blanket none. It was actually my midwife who confirmed that 1-2 units once or twice a week if I fancied it with a meal or a special occasion is perfectly fine.

Have you tried grapefruit juice ?

No. What's the actual point in a few sips anyway? It's almost certainly a coincidence that it helps with morning sickness, that's just nuts.

@ShutUpAlex

Nothing. There’s nothing for nausea, just vomiting.

anti-sickness medicine called antiemetic