To have one small glass of red wine at 38 weeks pregnant?

[baby2c]

I’m not a drinker at all but DH gets a bottle of red once or twice a month and tonight I really fancy just a very small glass, I’m a weirdo (according to DH) who likes ice in red wine on the rare occasion I have it. DH is only having one glass just in case I was to go into labour and he had to drive to hospital. So I was thinking of having a tiny amount with some ice and enjoying sipping it whilst watching tv in my pjs however I’m not sure if this is totally out of order or reasonable? Would you? Or did you? I haven’t touched alcohol at all since finding out I am pregnant at 4 weeks.

I always find it amazing the Brits attitude to drinking. Of course drinking alcohol in pregnancy is harmful. They set that limit in the UK because they know it's full of lushes and a people would ignore a limit of zero. If you can't make it 9 months without drinking while you are growing a child, you have a drink problem. https://www.afro.who.int/news/drinking-alcohol-during-pregnancy-harmful-unborn-child

It's like the handmaid's tale round here. Why are women's bodies policed so heavily by other women? Isn't it bad enough that male politicians and doctors think that women's bodies are just for their benefit without other women jumping all over us as well.

You really really don’t want to know about the 2 not teeny glasses of very fine white wine I had at 40 weeks + 2 days pg with my 3rd child. Who just got 11 grade 9s in their GCSE’s (I do know enough science to know that’s not evidence … but jeez)

enjoy your Malbec thimble …😉

They used to drink milk stout when pregnant apparently when Mum was having me, late 1940s.

I would and did!

Anecdotal fallacy.

You’re all welcome to keep poisoning your unborn foetuses. The rest of us will continue following medical advice.

Except a single cigarette can have a negative affect on your health, so smoking one a week would unlikely to have a ‘negligible impact on your health’. Sorry, a glass of wine in pregnancy is one thing but that’s a stupid sentence. And I say that as someone who used to fucking love cigarettes.

Personally I don’t know how she stomached it 🤣 but she did

There isn’t much iron in port so completely pointless.

Some of these comments are batshit 😂

I’m glad you listened to reason OP! You’re fine! I did the same.

Enjoy your icy red (bit weird, soz) and good luck with the coming weeks x

At 38 weeks pregnant with my first I went into labour at my bestfriends wedding. I had a glass of Prosecco I don’t even know why but I did. 6 hours later my first dd was born no pain relief, no tears amazing experience. Second dd Christmas I was so pissed off at being fat again 2 weeks before due date had a glass of wine daughter came no pain relief, back to back no tears. Third dd my waters broke on my birthday and I was ridiculously upset I was going to share my birthday. Went to nandos as you do with waters trickling down my legs, had a beer, dd came 4 hours later no pain relief no tears weighing close to 10.5lb. My kids are now 19, 14 and 13 and perfect in every way.

Relax.

I wouldn’t but DH wouldn’t be just drinking one so he could drive to the hospital if needed either. We used to be big drinkers but both would have abstained in these circumstances.

One thing that I always find somewhat uneven on MN with this topic, is that quite often, posters passionately believe that any amount of junk food/nutrition-free crap/processed shite is absolutely fine during pregnancy, but a small glass of red wine makes you irresponsible.

Of course it's fine, OP. Glad you're enjoying a glass.

I would, and did with my first. I was 38 weeks when DH and I cooked ourselves a really special steak dinner as a last Friday evening that we’d be having for a while as I was booked in for a planned caesarean the following week. I then went into labour that evening so had to go into hospital to have the caesarean early. For some reason (probably just being pregnant is enough) I then panicked about it and kept hysterically telling any medical staff who came near me “but I’ve had a glass of wine!!!!!”, and they clearly thought I was nuts and just wanted to know the time I’d finished eating and drinking because they wanted a six hour gap before taking me down to theatre. The doctors and nurses all thought it was fine.

Well, I lived to tell the tale.

I 100% would not

I’m not shocked that your mum drinking port didn’t kill you, just that anyone would think port is a good source of iron, out of all the things out there that are rich in iron.

It would be a no from me, I remember the cravings well. But you're at the home stretch, not long now why break the abstaining you've done for foetal health now?

What? What does you having no pain relief and no tearing have to do with having a drink during pregnancy? Are you trying to suggest that you having one drink led to you not tearing?! Bonkers 😂

So what is the risk? No one has actually come out with that

And the person who said ice and coca cola in red wine, there are no acceptable rude words for that.

I mean i wouldn't simply cos it was red wine, a tiny glass of white wine though and yeah no problem! It's been a few years since I was pregnant so obviously check the latest advice from the medical people (im NOT a medical person) but my midwife and consultant during my last very difficult pregnancy both advised that a small glass of wine at 36 weeks as a one off was no problem, I was going to a wedding and whilst I'd intended to not drink i asked out of curiosity. I ended up having a white wine spritzer that was about 80% lemonade and it was bloody lovely! Good luck with the last couple of weeks of your pregnancy x

My midwife suggested I go for half a pint of Guinness at the pub next to the doctors surgery, after one of my routine check ups (low iron). That was in 2010.

I also wouldn't give the baby a bottle of water ...

Its really not the same. The amount of alcohol in a small glass of wine won't affect baby at all.

Cool! Wine o’clock it is!