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.

@ShutUpAlex it's fine, the guidelines are because they cannot recommend a limit due to everyone being different. I know someone who was so risk adverse that won't even cook with wine when she was pregnant........ You literally have to be an alcoholic to go into the realms of FAS, so it's an educational point

@ShutUpAlex

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

There is. It doesn't completely take it away, but it helps

You literally have to be an alcoholic to go into the realms of FAS, so it's an educational point
Well that is utter nonsense.

Well my doctor won’t prescribe anything for just nausea.
I will force some grapefruit juice down and see if that helps.

Although, a few sips is fine, but if that is what helped, it won't last long, so how often every day will you have a few sips of wine?

Just the once, the nausea is at its worst about 5pm. I’m ok during the day but it kicks in in the event and I can’t eat or sleep. Haribo was working but that’s not anymore.

But if afew sips helps I would do it.

Thing is a few sips can easily become a glass and then the frequency of it. All in all I'd just avoid. I know women drinking in pregnancy is somewhat of a controversial topic but on this I'd just forgo all booze. Some things are out of our control vis a vis pregnancy so for the things you can control it's best to make decisions wisely.

It will be fine.

Honestly, you just have to balance your own risk.
In my case, I was a physical wreck - 4 major surgeries in 18 months, 10 miscarriages over 9 years, on morphine for chronic pain and anti depressants for very severe mental illnesses. Hyper emesis was so bad I could only eat Brie and drink black coffee.
The decisions were made that I did whatever was needed to get through the pregnancy - if I could only keep coffee down that was better than no fluid etc.
Baby was fine (very luckily) but I knew the issues and the risks that were there. You have to decide for yourself, but tbh a few sips every so often will be filtered out before passing the placental barrier.

I've never heard anything so ridiculous "I feel sick so I think I'll drink alcohol"

Think about that baby
If you plan on breastfeeding it would be a no as-well so if 3 months off it is making you miserable you need a word with yourself about your priorities

@SmidgenofaPigeon

Non-alcohol wine is rank.

God it is. That Nosecco stuff is rank.

Getting anti nausea medication is hard, I’ve had 8 pregnancies and awful morning sickness with 3 of them, literally all day every day, the whole way through. Could never get anything for it.

A few sips will be fine.

The reason NHS guidance is not to drink at all is because they can't establish a safe limit. They can't establish a safe limit because it would be unethical to experiment on the topic- can you imagine asking pregnant women to deliberately get pissed in order to work out how much gave babies brain damage/developmental problems/physical disabilities.

But lots of women drink small amounts throughout pregnancy with no ill effects. They're unlikely to admit it on Mumsnet though. Can't imagine why

You can drink when breastfeeding actually, although I won’t be so that point doesn’t matter.

I’m not an alcoholic, I don’t usually drink anyway due to meds but I’m not on those atm due to the pregnancy. I can perfectly manage 3 sips of wine without it turning I to a glass as I wouldn’t want to drink a whole glass anyway. I’m going to try making a rich red wine sauce and see if that had the same effect as it was definitely that rich feeling of it hitting my stomach that really helped with the nausea. Thanks for the advice.

@tiredmum2468

I've never heard anything so ridiculous "I feel sick so I think I'll drink alcohol"

Think about that baby
If you plan on breastfeeding it would be a no as-well so if 3 months off it is making you miserable you need a word with yourself about your priorities

You can drink freely when breastfeeding, the amount of alcohol that passes through the milk is negligible

@ShutUpAlexb a few sips will be processed before they cross the placenta and be fine

Another vote for Emily Oster and a bigger vote for researching / reading yourself as you’ll get a huge variety of views / misinformation on this

Of course you can have a drink while breastfeeding

You'll be fine, OP! If you're worried about it creeping up and not noticing then why not pour out a glass at the start of the week and just take a sip or two from there so you know how much you've had.

How many weeks? I found the nausea got better between 16-30 weeks then ramped up again in the third trimester.

Honestly a glass of wine is not going to hurt.

Not sure a few sips would be enough to make a difference?
I suffered ‘morning sickness’ in the afternoon/early evening too! The only thing that helped me was as soon as it was about 4.30 and I felt it coming on, was to eat, quickly. Get something safe in your stomach. I ate a lot of hot cross buns 😊 x

Do you personally believe a few sips of wine will cause a damage to your child? There is no research that would give you 100%answer, but you need to use a common sense.

@ohbuoy 13 weeks. With my first I was sick for the whole 37 weeks

First trimester no I wouldnt risk any. Later on then yeah a small amount now and again is fine. I had two glasses of champagne and oj at Christmas (one with breakfast and one with lunch), and also had a full glass of red wine when I was 41 weeks as a last ditch attempt to make baby girl arrive by relaxing me (didnt work). According to my midwife that was all absolutely fine. Just maybe save it for when the nausea is at its worst- every night I think would be unwise as it may build up.

If it is literally a few sips I completely would. Nausea is miserable. I'm not sure anti emetics do help with it. I had HG and they stopped me physically being sick but I still felt sick.

This is MN, OP, you're not supposed to drink alcohol, ever. If you do, you will quickly lose control and wind up in a wheelie bin in an alley. If the NHS tells you to jump off a bridge, you do it.

Alcohol completely revolted me the second I became pregnant but strangely a day or two before going into labour, every time, I found myself craving it. It was a pina colada with my first. I made one and drank a bit of it and then gave it to my husband. It was a milk stout with my second and a bottle of beer with my third. But this was back before the blanket ban.

@ShutUpAlex poor you. Hopefully it will ease soon. All pregnancies are different so just because you felt shit before it doesn't mean you will this time. I felt awful throughout DC1's pregnancy but better with DC. Do what you need to do to get through it, within reason obviously!