When did you cut down on alcohol

[Freckle1]

Hi everyone,
My husband and I are preparing to TTC in September and we’ve been really good with vitamins, exercise and diet but we’ve been struggling with cutting down on our drinking with coronavirus. Obviously I don’t plan on drinking when pregnant, and plan on drinking minimally or not at all when TTC, but did you stop drinking before you started trying?

Nope! I'm 7 months in with no end in sight and abstaining from alcohol would have driven me nuts. Per the holy grail that is the book "it starts with the egg", alcohol doesn't really affect fertility. Personally I'd probably know I'm pregnant within 2-3 days of implantation as I watch my TWW like a hawk, and I'm unlikely to be boozing in that small window anyway 🤷‍♀️

the two weeks after I conceived before I got my BFP with DD were two of the drunkest of my life. That's probably not recommended, but I would say I conceived cycle 5 without cutting down. I think if we'd gone longer I may have cut back. Hard to say. We're TTC #2 now and the only way I console myself to getting BFNs is knowing that not being pregnant means I can enjoy sharing a bottle of wine with DH. We'd go mad otherwise!