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.

@TheKeatingFive

The risk of getting into cars and crossing roads can't be compared to the risks of alcohol

Why not?

In both instances, there’s a tiny chance you could harm the baby. So why can’t they be compared?

One is a choice, the others are necessary to go about your normal life. Or are you suggesting that pregnant women should be confined to their beds for the duration? It's not much of an argument, really.

Ondensatron (Zofran) might work for your nausea. GP's don't prescribe it unless severe sickness because of the cost, they might give prochlorperazine which as a PP has said is rubbish and makes you feel tired and dizzy.

A private GP will however, if you're willing to spend. However personally if it is nausea and not vomiting, I'd probably look at other alternatives. And that's not to say constant nausea isn't bad - its horrible! I personally wouldn't have a problem with a sip or two of red wine, and it is a personal decision.

the others are necessary to go about your normal life.

Precisely why I said unnecessary journeys

Or are you suggesting that pregnant women should be confined to their beds for the duration?

I didn’t say that now, did I? They could easily make a choice to avoid using cars for unnecessary journeys while pregnant, because, to paraphrase, ‘why take unnecessary risks’?

Ondensatron (Zofran) might work for your nausea. GP's don't prescribe it unless severe sickness because of the cost, they might give prochlorperazine which as a PP has said is rubbish and makes you feel tired and dizzy

Drugs are good buy wine is bad? Nah.

Also used to have a couple of drinks while breastfeeding. Sometimes at the same time as actually breastfeeding. If I was actually going out somewhere for the evening and planning to drink more though I'd build up a store of expressed milk in case DD needed a bottle while I was out, and for night/early morning feeds, then express any milk and discard after consuming alcohol on the night out and then resuming feeding as normal from the breast after the alcohol was out of my system.

Yes I do have a few sips or a small glass every now and again.

@swimlittlefishy I also said no problem with a little wine adding up to a glass a week. Ondensatron is prescribed for HG

I didn't and wouldn't in future pregnancies, as I went by the NHS guidance on alcohol as the risk level isn't really known. For me, it wasn't worth it and 9 months of no alcohol wasn't a big deal, I could live without it anyway.
If I do want to drink now, while breastfeeding, I wait until baby is down for the night, but that's a personal choice as I know I could drink while feeding, I'd just rather not.

And that was in the late '80s

I seem to think the advice changed sometime in the 00s to "none". Certainly when I was having DD1 in 2005 we had wine at my NCT teacher's house at the last antenatal session then it seemed to be more frowned on to have any alcohol at all when I had DD2 in 2009. I carried on in the same way as I had with DD1 though.

There are people on here who will twist any argument into a rationale for drinking "the wine" by practicing weapons-grade levels of "whatabouttery".

"What about the risk of driving?"

Well, what about it? It's a dreadful comparison choice to try and make.

If you can't forgo wine for just a few months? Then there's bigger problems. This country is unreal when it comes to alcohol, it seems anything goes for "the wine."

In the words of Ted Hastings, Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey. A few sips of wine isn’t going to harm your baby. Plus women CAN actually have some alcohol while breastfeeding.

Well, what about it? It's a dreadful comparison choice to try and make.

Explain why

Both tiny risks. Both avoidable. Surely if you have the view ‘why take any risk’ you’d avoid both?

OP you should do whatever you feel most comfortable doing. Your body, your baby, your choice. From what I understand very small amounts of alcohol pose very little risk. I am old enough to remember the the guidelines previously were that 1-2 units were fine. This wasn't changed because more evidence came to light to suggest that small amounts of alcohol were harmful, more that mums to be (and the public in general) didn't really understand what a unit was, and therefore it was easier to advise that we abstained completely during pregnancy. Personally I think that a couple of sips of wine occasionally is completely fine. I really dislike all of the unnecessary moral judgement on pregnant and breastfeeding women.

@Ginuwine and yet here you are twisting my reason to suit your agenda. It’s not a case of “I can’t go without wine for 9 months”.
It’s a case of I had a few sips of my fiancé’s wine and it made my sickness go for the rest of that evening. I’m now contemplating doing it again but not sure how often a few sips of wine should be ok going off the Badis that one glass of wine a week seems to be for most people.

A few sips will not harm your baby. I think I had two beers in my whole pregnancy, I just didn´t fancy it. At the end of the day you have to use your common sense, and what I consider risk the next woman will consider neglible. The infantilization of pregnant women is scandalous. It really pissed me off when I was pregnant.

@TheKeatingFive

Well, what about it? It's a dreadful comparison choice to try and make.

Explain why

Both tiny risks. Both avoidable. Surely if you have the view ‘why take any risk’ you’d avoid both?

This is ridiculous.
Most people can't actually get anywhere beyond their homes without crossing a street. Most people need to drive. Ballsing on about "but what about the extra unnecessary journeys" is really bloody thick. Who the hell drives aimlessly around for the fun of it? Maybe 80 year olds out for a Sunday spin, but that's not what we're talking about here.

Ballsing on about "but what about the extra unnecessary journeys" is really bloody thick.

No it isn’t. Shopping, socialising, going for a drive, all strictly speaking unnecessarily.

Getting into a car to do them is a risk. So if your approach is ‘why take any risks’ then logically they should be avoided.

See also takeaways incase you get sick.

@SVRT19674

A few sips will not harm your baby. I think I had two beers in my whole pregnancy, I just didn´t fancy it. At the end of the day you have to use your common sense, and what I consider risk the next woman will consider neglible. The infantilization of pregnant women is scandalous. It really pissed me off when I was pregnant.

Yes me too. I used to get sushi from Pret once a week (vaguely nutritious food I could actually stomach, amid all the crisps and chips and any salty carbs I fancied otherwise) and would really enjoy it, after of course checking sushi was ok to have. Every week a colleague would ask "should you be eating that?"

@emilyfrost

You shouldn’t have done it in the first place.

You’re growing a human being, you’re going to be a mother, and yet you’re taking risks with your baby’s life before they’re even born? Shame on you.

What the fuck?

Stop treating it like she's smoking crack or playing chicken on the M6.

@SmidgenofaPigeon

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.

agreed - a few sips further along in the pregnancy won't do you any harm but loads here say you'll harm the baby. It's not as though you're knocking back a bottle or more every week... whilst pregnant.

@emilyfrost

Are you for real? What risk exactly is she taking with her baby's life?
Shame on you for being so unpleasant and judgemental

I get the feeling a lot of people read the title without reading the OPs actual post...

@ShutUpAlex As you've only tried it once and so aren't 100% sure if it was the sips of red wine or not then I'd absolutely try it a couple more times to see if it was a coincidence or not. Even if you only do it when the nausea is at it's absolute worst, if it does genuinely/consistently give you some relief then you need to make a judgement call for yourself.

It seems that even abstaining from alcohol while pregnant doesn't make you a nice person. Imagine a child having to have such a nasty, judgemental mother.