Drinking during the 2-week wait

[Elisep]

I am feeling very anxious and am looking for some kind words. I have been TTC for a while with no luck. This month I have decided to relax and enjoy myself- this involved going to my Christmas party (3 days post ovulation), I drank quite a lot and had a good time. However, I am now extremely anxious that I could be pregnant and have put baby in harms way. Everyone around me tells me I am silly and I need to enjoy myself whilst TTC. I previously, gave up alcohol completely. My hubby is very supportive and was the one who said I should relax and let my hair down. Anyone been in a similar situation?

Not me but a friend of mine got unintentionally pregnant November time, had a very heavy December of drinking, including blind drunk at New Years and didn’t find out she was pregnant until January. Her now almost teenager was absolutely fine!
i think the general rule is not to worry until you’re confirmed as pregnant.

fingers crossed for you that you are though 😊

I have had a few drinks myself in the two week wait. I probably wouldn’t go crazy but who knows how long it will take, so it would be hard to stop all together for so long when I have birthdays, weekends away etc planned. I take each month as it comes! Obviously once I’d seen that positive test there’d be no more alcohol!

I’m sure in those very early stages you’d be absolutely fine and not do your baby any harm if you were pregnant this month.
All of my friends who have children admitted they got drunk before they found out they were pregnant and their babies are all perfectly fine.
Try not to be too hard on yourself 🥰 x

Thanks. Reassuring to know everything was ok with your friends child xo

I'm team 'drink 'til it's pink'! You can't put your life on hold while ttc.

A huge amount of women drink before they realise they are pregnant. I was pregnant at the beginning of a very hot summer and had loads of bbqs involving copious amounts of booze, and a holiday (all inc!). I was horrified when I found out I was pregnant and obv stopped immediately. Twins are now 21 and absolutely fine.

I think the general wisdom is that drinking heavily during 2ww might impact whether conception sticks, but if it does, it won't impact the baby in the long run. Emily Oster has some good statistics on this in her book Expecting Better. I drank moderately during the 2ww not realizing I was pregnant as we hadn't officially been trying that month so that I could enjoy the holidays (I ovulated early I guess) and had a normal healthy pregnancy and birth.

Thanks so much for sharing xo

Don’t worry about it. I’m team ‘drink til pink’ too. The embryo gets its nutrition from the yolk sac in very early pregnancy, the placenta doesn’t kick in until about 10 weeks so you’re not going to pass on any alcohol that way. Otherwise alcohol thins the blood which can actually help implantation.

You won’t have implanted or even be close to implantation at 3 dpo even if sperm had met egg so relax.