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.

A relative drank during her pregnancy. Kept saying her midwife had told her one glass every now and then was probably OK. No harm to baby, thankfully. I am not sure she’s a good example though as an alcoholic.

Personally wouldn't drink at all in pregnancy. I'm currently expecting my second and I think there is no need. 9 months out of your whole life to have no alcohol is nothing. I had awful sickness and even if wine was the only thing to stop it I still wouldn't.

It will be absolutely fine! My GP was pregnant when I was and she told me she had to tell me not to drink (as PP said it's because people can't work out their units so easier to say none at all) but that she had a glass of red every night. I had a few here and there while pregnant with both of mine and it was fine.

You would have to be drinking a lot more than a few sips to do any damage.

I didn't because I just didn't fancy it, but my midwide said a small glass of wine a week wouldn't do any harm. Surely that's all a few sips will add up to (unless they're big gulps!)?

"A few sips".....

You mean two or three glasses.

So no it's not the best thing to do every day for nine months.

@Daphnise how on earth have you deduced that OP obviously means ‘a few glasses’ when she says a few sips? How bloody condescending. If she says a sip who are you to say she’s actually meaning a few glasses?

@Daphnise

"A few sips".....

You mean two or three glasses.

So no it's not the best thing to do every day for nine months.

🤣 no, I think she means a few sips. How big are your sips ffs. You downing the whole glass in one go?

I couldn’t even drink 2 or 3 glasses a day even without being pregnant!

if it helps you with morning sickness then I would. A few sips would be okay.

@ShutUpAlex

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

That's not true at all. My cyclizine reduced my nausea to almost nothing from being all day overwhelming nausea, yet I still puked once a day.

Your only pregnant for 9months for god sake and likely not all of those months you will be nauseous.surely you can avoid alcohol that long.

No, not worth it IMO

@ShutUpAlex just have those sips, honestly some of the replies (a lot of the replies) are just exhausting to hear, it's like you've just asked AIBU for necking a bottle a day .

@Nesski Thankyou yes I will. Mummy martyrs don’t really do much for me anyway

About to tuck i to my shot glass of red wine, so will see how this goes.

[quote ShutUpAlex]@Nesski Thankyou yes I will. Mummy martyrs don’t really do much for me anyway

About to tuck i to my shot glass of red wine, so will see how this goes.[/quote]

So those of you who gave considered health advice are "mummy martyrs" and you're unsurprisingly going to "tuck into The Wine" anyway.

What are the point of these kind of posts where the OP has absolutely no inclination to listen to anyone other than an echo chamber of "go on you do you xx"

I agree with OP, its the martyrs that look like dicks.

I think you’ve done this so people tell you ‘it’s ok’ to make your feel better tbh.

I drank two glasses of red twice a week from about 20 weeks with both my children. I also drank half a bottle of champagne two days before I have birth as I'd heard it would bring on labour.

In the mid 2000s 2 units twice a week was the recommendation.

@GreyhoundG1rl lol says the one who just goes round trolling on every post. I’ve never seen a serious answer out of you.

Yes mummt martyrs, because the only posters who have advised against it have been hysterical, haven’t provided any reasonable reason as to why a few sips of wine could do any damage and have just been rude and insulting which say a lot more about the type of person they are than it does me.

The posters who have said a few sips won’t hurt have been calm and some been provided some literature on the subject. So yea, I’ve decided a few sips of wine a few evenings a week is going to be ok for me personally.

@Bumbers

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.

This

The “a few sips easily becomes a glass” thing is nonsense. I occasionally had a sip of my husband’s drink whilst pregnant, and on a handful of times had maybe 50ml of beer or wine on a special occasion. I never accidentally necked his drink or sploshed out a full 250ml glass.

@PinkCookie11

I think you’ve done this so people tell you ‘it’s ok’ to make your feel better tbh.

And it is OK, so job done.

Nice when its such an easy aIBU.

@swimlittlefishy Job done whilst causing hell on 😂it’s been eventful

I drank in my pregnancy because I didn't know any better - just the tiny amounts people are reassuring themselves is OK.

I didn't realise that alcohol passes thru to the baby (in the way it doesn't when you are breast feeding) and it's there in the baby's system.
So it's only a tiny bit, so it's only a negligible effect... But who are you to intentionally alter your baby's development even slightly?
All these "it didn't affect mine" are wrong. They mean their child falls within the broad band of normal - and they're not facing the challenge of a kid with alcohol related SEN.
But within that band then yes child has been shifted in his path. Microscopically perhaps. Because the alcohol passes through.
Drink the wine if you want - but don't claim this nill effect thing. You have no proof.