Drinking?

[MissTwister]

I was just wondering if people are having the odd alcoholic drink in pregnancy? I had the very odd small glass of wine early in 2nd trimester but haven't for a while....toying with the idea of a glass on holiday though!

I am 35 weeks ish and have a glass of wine with my meal about once or twice a week. Over the whole pregnancy perhaps it adds up to less than that. The glasses are retro and v small - like small pub measures. Not those huge ones.

Oh and I had a glass of prosecco on Sunday.

I think it's good for me.

I don't like the fear and worry this issue instills in pregnant women - people get so so panicked and over the top about it. Pregnancy should be a happy time, so if you are going to worry about having a small glass of wine or beer - abstain. If not (and IMO) you should not, go ahead. Studies I read show that 7 - 14 drinks a week (more than I would drink not pregnant) showed no ill effects on pregnancies. In fact, as mentioned above, even showed raised IQ among moderately drinking mothers. There is data out there but obviously studying harm on a foetus is pretty unethical so advice rightly errs on the side of caution.

Yes I have had the odd small wine or glass of beer or shandy.
Over the weekend I rediscovered tonic water with lemon, limes and cucumber. Very nice even without the gin! ??

I can't find that study nancy. I can only find studies which show that either low level drinking has no affect on intelligence or that it does harm intelligence. Most studies seem to show that less than 9 units a week has no affect on intelligence whereas more than that has an impact and lowers IQ.
Do you have a link to the study you mention?

I think someone already linked the IQ one above Superexcited ? I think it was a headline grabber.

I mentioned a study that looks at the outcomes of moderate drinking up to 5 years old, here is a link to the conclusions plus the longer studies if you have a few hours to spare ! www.bjog.org/details/news/2085661/Danish_studies_suggest_low_and_moderate_drinking_in_early_pregnancy_has_no_adver.html

there is another but I really don't like threads that rumble on linking articles that no one reads TBH - have a look for data yourself and see what is out there. My conclusion is:

Pregnancy should be a happy time, so if you are going to worry about having a small glass of wine or beer - abstain

If the link upthread is the one from the express then I looked at that one and it suggested that women who drank a glass of wine a week had better behaved children, but it did state:
Mothers who drank 90 units or more of alcohol turn out to be the most well educated and healthiest lifestyle over all.

Which suggests that the mothers educational level and own health was the main contributing factor to the children's behaviour and not the singular glass of wine each week (no surprises there).

The Danish study that you linked to is one that I had already seen and it's findings were not that low level drinking during pregnancy improved the child's intelligence but rather that it didn't harm it and have an adverse affect whereas moderate and high level drinking did harm intelligence. Saying that low level drinking doesn't harm intelligence is not the same as saying that it improves it.

Guys - sorry, unless the Guinness is the original extra stout, the iron in it is negligible.

Cans and draught don't work (I'm ex-Guinness and have spent loads of time with the Brewers).

I'm also a smallish glass of wine once or so a week. Would love more but thankfully stop myself. I'm usually a 3 or 4 too much anyway girl, though I usually fall asleep before I'd get drunk.