Glass of wine on Chrismas day.

[LucyB1]

Hi, I'm going to be 12+5 on Christmas day and i am absolutely GAGGING for a glass of red. Is that really bad cause I'm not quite out of the first trimester??

I am a light drinker but I think we have become obsessed with this issue. What on earth do you think will happen after say ONE glass of champagne. Its the problem women drinkers that have no intention of stopping pregnant or not that we need to focus on. Please go after them.

FGS - give it a rest!

Let's not forget that the OP wasn't even asking about one drink a week - she was asking about one drink at Christmas, which leads me to believe that she's not drunk anything else during her whole pregnancy. I'll be 33 weeks at Christmas and will have a glass of liqueur. That and the mulled cider I had at my work Xmas do 2 weeks ago is pretty much all I've drunk throughout my pregnancy and I really don't think it will do any harm.

I was pregnant over the Xmas period some years ago (two months gone) and the only time I had a drink during the whole pregnancy was at Xmas, I think I had one glass of sparkling...no negative effects whatsoever!

My second pregnancy, I think I again, a beer (half pint) and again, no probs.

I really think one glass of red at Xmas will be just fine, IMHO!

I'm not working in the right research field so don't have access to the right journals to see if it's already been done, but surely it'd be fairly simple to put together a study into Educating's theories of low alcohol consumption by comparing diagnosis rates in the children of dry populations vs populations with low, medium and high levels of alcohol intake? There'd be a lot of sociocultural factors to control for, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility. To the best of my knowledge, there's not a noticeably lower rate of educational disabilities support needed for the children of strict muslim mothers (to pick the obvious example) vs the broader populations.

It would indeed be great to have the results of such studies Kerosene, I agree- i guess we'll never have them though as people who drink heavily during pregnancy are probably too embarrassed about it to engage in a study per se. Or maybe not, who knows. If they were offered enough money i'm sure they'd consent!

FTR, as one who was pro 'the odd glass', i had half a glass last night at my work Christmas party, and actually felt pretty awful after it! I didnt even finish it.. which, trust me, is a first!!! That's not to say I wont have a handful more over the next 5 months- but i really didnt feel too hot after it- kind of like a strange indigestion or something? I guess it could be mother nature's way of keeping me dry!!

I had a southern comfort and lemonade last night... my friends looked horrified until I explained that I was allowed the odd drink here and there. One (not really a friend but an acquaintance) insisted that I wasn't and that the baby would have foetal alcohol syndrome and I was effectively killing it by having a drink

I am on the fence moomin but your experience is the exact reason that if I did decide to have a preggy drink it'd be at home

I just laughed and told him to fuck off. I'm just rude thick-skinned, me

It would be the Southern Comfort that brought out the judgy pants. Don't you no pregnant ladies only ever drink a 'glass of wine'

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Go ahead OP, have two. The sheer amount of lovely stuff that pregnant women can be persuaded to abstain from amazes me. But then, I celebrated my positive pregnancy test with a glass of Champagne and just used my own common sense for the rest.

Tondelayo no apparently any alcohol at all is fatal to unborn babies. He nearly fainted later on when I told him I've had a couple of glasses of wine topped up with lemonade in the 21 weeks I've been pregnant

Can you just not do it for this one year? You've got plenty of Xmas's to have a drink. Wouldn't risk it personally, seems utterly pointless to me.

What risk, exactly, do you think the OP is running with a single glass of wine at Christmas?

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And so the merry circle begins again!!

Sorry penguins - that was meant for poster above you

Ha ha ha.

Sounds like loveolives is the guy from the party last night

Also if you read the second link in EvidenceBasedMum's post of yesterday - there are RISKS of abstaining completely as well! Which way do we pregnant women turn?

Clue: towards the bar

I've had a bottle of lager and enjoyed it

Don't forget that those who are most likely to drink a lot while pregnant are addicts, and addicts notoriously don't tell the truth. so all the data about actual amounts of alcohol and their effects on a child is going to be skewed, in that unless a woman in is hospital and under observation for 40 weeks, you only have her word for how much she has actually drunk, and in cases where it is problematic it is likely to be a lot more than she said

When I was pg I used to like to theatrically swig heartily from a dewy bottle of very cold alcohol-free lager.

This is crazy - the nhs website say's that one-two glasses of wine, once
or twice a week is fine. For FAS you would have to be drinking at least two bottles of wine a night every night, it would also have to be not your first pregnancy, and very probably not your second either.

I know how easy it is to get obsessed when your pregnant so i will back away here.

Why do you have to be on baby no. 2 or 3 for it to get FAS?

Seriously, people can't go for JUST 9 months without a drink?? No I never would while pregnant. It's just not worth it. We don't know the effects or the amounts that can harm them. It's so unknown, why would you risk it??? I've been pregnant twice over Christmas and never drank, it can be done! It's a tiny sacrifice to make. There'll be a hell of a lot of changes to your life when the baby is born, if you can't be bothered to change this one tiny Christmas tradition for the safety of your child then I feel sorry for your baby.