alcohol when pregnant

[joanna1985]

i was at a friends birthday last night, had a big meal and one strawberry dakeri and havve been sick as a dog. i threw up my whole meal when i got home and feel awful today, is this normal for one wee drink? i feel really guilty now :(

I asked my Italian friend what the advice was on alcohol and she said it was just 'don't get drunk'!

I think the official guidelines are the similar everywhere in EU: no or very little alcohol.

The doctors don't necessarily seem to agree with that, though. When I was pg with DD 3 years ago, the midwives only wanted to know whether I'm downing bottles of vodka. They didn't care about the few small glasses of wine I had with my dinner every week.

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When I was in university, the lectures from the neurologists tended to say that foetal alcohol syndrome was caused by alcohol abuse and complex factors to do with the nutritional status of alcohol-abusing mothers.

I have had maybe three glasses of beer this pregnancy and that's a lot more than last pregnancy, but I would consider a small glass of red wine if I desperately wanted one.

People always say that French pregnant women are drinking wine and eating brie with gay abandon, but I'm currently pregnant in France and the advice I've been given from the hospital, gyne and midwives is no alcohol at all, no mould-ripened or white rind cheeses, no salads in restaurants in case of toxoplasmosis, all meat totally cooked through...

googietheegg thanks for posting this! I have LONG suspected we were being spun a ridiculous yarn about blue-cheese-eating, wine-slurping, pregnant French women (who all manage to stay perfectly slim, have sex-lives spent largely swinging from chandeliers, and who have perfect children who eat everything they're given and "never throw food").

badge perhaps there are some parts of Paris where women are perfectly styled every day and have elegant soirees, but down here in the south you get a mixture of thin/fat/stylish/minging like you do anywhere else. You see far more people smacking their kids too

I do think French women in the main have smaller frames, but that's about it. There's plenty of heiffers!!