To have a glass of wine while pregnant?

[onethousand]

Third trimester, I know it's not recommended but ... really fancy a glass of wine. Would you?

"makes me laugh that people try and insinuate that someone must have an issue with alcohol if they fancy a glass of wine while pregnant"

I believe it is your comprehension that may be the issue. Interesting you can't recall your own comment.....

We had Einstein, Bell, Lovelace, Pankhurst, Baird, Turing, and any number of intelligent, socially adept, adjusted people before we knew that excessive alcohol consumption was not ideal in pregnancy.
People need to calm down.

Exactly, and a pp saying above that if you can't sacrifice a drink you won't have the mentality to be a parent. We're talking the odd drink. The op hasn't said she thinks she'll die if she doesn't have a glass of wine. Peoole need to get a grip.

OP, hope you feel comfortable with your decision, whatever it was & don't read too much into it either way!!

Yes..

I'd wager that a small glass of wine in pregnancy will do less harm to a baby overall than being raised by some of the sanctimonious harpies on this thread would.

I would and did occasionally

@MidnightPatrol alcohol crosses the placenta and enters the baby's bloodstream.
I just wonder how many posters who say it's fine would be happy to give their baby a bit of wine once born? You wouldn't would you. So why expose your baby to it when pregnant?!

By that logic a pregnant woman can only drink milk.

Precisely. Wonder how many of them have drunk orange juice whilst pregnant? Or ate tiramisu? Or eaten a certain kind of bread, or drank apple juice!

Or COFFEE!!! I'm quaking at the things I exposed my babies too. Its a miracle they came through....

Again! What about the OPs post suggests she is reliant on alcohol?

Exactly! I had one cup of caffeinated coffee per day whilst I was pregnant. Drank lots of fizzy (sugar free) lemonade! Ate chocolate, red meat! All sorts! All of these things are bad, and you wouldnt give them to a newborn baby, or even a 2 year old but apparently you aren’t meant to eat drink things you wouldn’t give to a new born baby (according to one person on this thread!) so let just all live on formula and breast milk whilst pregnant!

I had to take my four children ( including a one year old ) to butlins on my own whilst 6 months pregnant at an October half term My husband was unable to come as was working.
My kids loved Butlins, I found it um rather hard work. One evening there I had a small glass of wine. It was welcome.
I am not alcohol dependent. I have about two drinks a year.
All OK. One drink in pregnancy is not going to hurt. Common sense and compassion ( self or otherwise) is most helpful for pregnancy and parenthood and life .

All this handwringing over small amounts of alcohol is mad. Our babies are exposed to so much worse in the womb and out - micro plastics, house cleaning chemicals, traffic fumes, etc. if you fancy a glass of wine, have it.

No, because I can feel one glass and I'm fully grown, so I'm sure a fetus doesn't need that at all.

I don't think you can compare alcohol to a glass of orange juice or cup of tea 😂.

And what percentage of the blood is alcohol, at the point it crosses into the babies bloodstream via the placenta, after one glass of wine?

I think as the blood supply between mother and fetus is directly shared, it would be the same as the blood stream of the mother.

@MidnightPatrol even if a small % gets passed on via the placenta, a foetus is a considerably smaller weight than an adult so will be more affected by it. Plus a foetus's liver is not fully developed so cannot process alcohol the same, and their brains are at a crucial point in development. Like I said earlier, the risk is minimal from one glass of wine. But the risk isn't zero.

@NowIam35 after 1 small glass of wine, the mothers blood alcohol content is going to be 0.01%.

This is not going to damage the baby. It is not drinking the glass of wine itself.

You should be careful with what you consume and do in pregnancy - but you also need to be rational about the risks you take (with everything).

Yes I would (and did) - an occasional glass, especially so far on will do no harm.

Well maybe we will reach them manners.

Ew.

To Nowlam 35, I was a premature baby born 1946 and the family doctor told my mother that she should put a small amount of brandy in my bottle of milk -not sure of the frequency, but I do remember her telling me that I always finished off the bottle that had brandy in it.

Wasn't it to make babies sleep?

I hope it hasn't caused you any long term damage.

I mean, doctors back then also promoted smoking, so thankfully we've got more information and know better these days.