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.

@FTEngineerM

I know but OP is taking about a few sips of red wine, which is between 12-15% taking the higher percentage that’s only 67ml for one unit of red wine.. or one ‘drink’ if you’re talking in the research paper terms which you can see here the two (drinks and sips) could be used interchangeably.

It’s very muddy, that’s probably why it conjures up such strong debate.

It is muddy and yet earlier posters are 100% that it causes no harm, so I'm out - who am I to say otherwise

And tbh it's ridiculous to act as though drinking alcohol while pregnant and travelling are the same thing

Not in terms of risk it isn’t.

The only reason you think it’s ridiculous is because we’ve been conditioned by society to magnify one risk and discount the other. The risks of getting in a car are probably significantly higher than very low drinking levels.

And sure people need to go to work, but most pregnant women take many unnecessary car journeys during their nine months, taking a small risk every single time.

The Irish Catholics might have missed that memo.

Not at all. I have an irish Catholic background myself. There are notable abstinence movements within Irish Catholicism - pioneers, pledge taking and so on.

That’s super interesting point @TheKeatingFive I couldn’t find the U.K. figures that easily but..

‘it has been estimated that between 1500 and 5000 fetal losses occur each year in the United States as a result of maternal involvement in automotive crashes (Pearlman 1997).‘ from: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3400205/

Considering SIDS in the USA is 3400 per year, to give it some perspective in my brain at least, they are of equal likelihood except one is talked about far far more than the other. www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm

I know sids has nothing to do with alcohol during pregnancy but it’s something we all know about and it’s drilled into from the minute you pee on that stick 😂

Have you been sick or is it just nausea?
I had HG and was in and out of hospital on a drip with my second, they gave me an injection of something to stop me being sick and it cleared it right up - for a few days.
There are anti sickness meds the doctor can prescribe, I'd be a bit pushy with them about it if your considering drinking as relief.
Take it easy.

@TheKeatingFive

And tbh it's ridiculous to act as though drinking alcohol while pregnant and travelling are the same thing

Not in terms of risk it isn’t.

The only reason you think it’s ridiculous is because we’ve been conditioned by society to magnify one risk and discount the other. The risks of getting in a car are probably significantly higher than very low drinking levels.

And sure people need to go to work, but most pregnant women take many unnecessary car journeys during their nine months, taking a small risk every single time.

@TheKeatingFive you have a point, and perhaps we have been conditioned to take some risks more seriously than others. Just in my opinion I will do whatever is necessary to minimise those risks. It was different for me being pregnant in a pandemic. I didn't go out anywhere, even to see family or whatever. Honestly I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if I thought I had done something which could result in harming my child. A woman I used to work with drank throughout her pregnancy (and glasses, not just sips!) And her baby was absolutely fine. But why risk it?

But why risk it?

Same reason why we risk anything. We weight up the risk and take a decision on whether it’s worth it to us. The risks we’ve mentioned on here are all absolutely tiny.

There are risks to everything, even getting out of bed.

I just think we don’t even register the moral lens we apply to drinking (not just in the case of pregnancy either).

To give you an example, I know a woman who lost a much wanted baby after a bad bout of food poisoning. An extremely sad story. Yet I didn’t let that stop me get the occasional takeaway when pregnant. I didn’t restrict myself to very ‘safe’ foods as a result. I didn’t chargrill all my meat/seafood to make sure it didn’t happen to me.

When people say ‘why take any risk’, they’re only talking about certain ones. In this case, it just happens to be the one that also involves a degree of moral judgement culturally. Other risks are happily taken all the time. That’s my only point really.