When do you knock booze on the head?

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Ok so prob shouldn't be drinking at all, I know. Haven't even been trying that long anyway so shouldn't be too diff - it's just with it being the festive season etc. Do you wait until AF starts? And then do you stop at any point???

I'm on the 2ww so have stopped now, just in case.

There is no proper evidence that it will do you/embryo much harm anyway unless you have some genetic risk of certain syndromes.
If you are on a bottle of vodka a day plus two lines of coke and a spliff then you may have trouble concieving or retaining a PG beyond a few days, but if you just like a pint or so on a Friday night, don't worry about it to the point you make yourself miserable.

Am on day 10 ( she says with glass of wine in one hand whilst typing with the other)

When should I stop do you think - usu only 1 small glass with dinner and not every night?

The booze thing is such a tricky one. I've tried total abstention but it is sooo hard when you just fancy a glass of wine after a bad day and as you say, it is Christmas and there's wine, mulled wine, baileys etc to drink... I just try to take it easy but don't go bonkers. I think you need to be relaxed when you are ttcing anyway. I admire anyone who can stay off the alcohol completely. My first DS was conceived on a Valentine's day after hangover!

I think you will be fine with the odd glass

personally (and I might well be wrong) I figured that as implantation isn't usually until at least a week after fertilisation (i.e. one week into the 2ww) alcohol in your system up until then cannot affect the developing embryo. So I think the need to cut down on or completely cut out alcohol isn't really necessary until the 4th week of your cycle. But these days I only have the odd glass one or two evenings a week which I have to admit to continuing throughout my cycle Also I found once pregnant I really didn't want to drink at all- the thought of it would make me want to puke- this happened very early on too!

As conception can take so many months I think personally so long as I don't drink excessively I carry on as normal- but that's just me and my opinion!

I only get pregnant with fertilty treatment, so I pretty much knock all alchohol on the head - it's worth it to know that I'm giving myself the very best chance of conceiving. Before we knew about the infertility, I drank the odd unit in the first two weeks, but gave up for the two week wait. If you cut down in public then it's not so obvious when you give up entirely after the BFP too.

I'm with JumpingJellyFish. I think that's the best approach if you want to stay sane!

PS. I think both my DCs were conceived on evenings after a few glasses, so in our case alcohol seemed to help facilitate conception !! (of course I didn't drink at all once I'd had a BFP...)

Do what seems best to you, OP. There is NO EVIDENCE AT ALL that moderate alcohol consumption does any harm (partly because the only way to prove it would be to take a load of pregnant women and pour alcohol down them to see what happened, while taking another group of PG women who were similar in every aspect and forbidding them alcohol. And to do an experiment like that would be profoundly unethical and probably impossible to do and maintain properly anyway.)
Yes there are certain symptoms and birth defects that may be connected with heavy drinking, but it is not possible to exclude other important factors such as genetic predisposition, other health issues that may be associated with heavy drinking (such as poor nutrition or poor housing conditions or frequent falling over).
And FWIW I drank lots of alcohol around the time DS was conceived and through most of the first trimester (because I wasn't planning a pregnancy and didn't know I had concieved). Oh, and I didn't panic and completely stop even looking at alcohol when I found out I was PG, either - and my DS is not only healthy but very advanced for his age.