Need reassurance, Accidentally drank at 7 months pregnant

[Paige7]

Hi so yeah I'm 28 weeks pregnant and freaking out a little. Basically I mixed my husbands glass for mine and ended up taking a sip from his which was alcoholic without realising before it was too late. I think I've worried myself so much, to a point where I have been physically sick.

Do I need to be worried or should everything be okay?

Oh my god, you better drink some lucozade and eat a bacon roll quick to help the baby's hangover.

No - one sip of alcohol is not going to do your baby any harm whatsoever.

The increased cortisol in your blood stream from your high stress levels however might.

If you genuinely can't get past this, you need to seek medical attention.

The alcohol has done no damage. You stressing about it is increasing your cortisol levels which is potentially harmful over a period of time, so chill out.

Your anxiety and circulating stress hormones are more harmful than a sip of alcohol

Can't wait for the posts when the baby is trying to put literally everything in their mouth. Or when MIL dares to give them a rusk.

If this is serious, I am a child of the later 70s/early 80s. Lots of my mum's friends still drank and smoked throughout their pregnancies. All those kids have managed to make it to adulthood just fine. I don't want to say fetal alcohol syndrome isn't a thing, but if it is, then I reckon at least half the people over 40 have it!

Ffs

There was a thread on here the other day "will stress harm my unborn baby?" So before this thread takes off in that direction now lol I'd just like to say the conclusion of that thread was no it doesn't. So just go to bed now OP 😂

MIL gives baby a rusk!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When I was pregnant in 1990s it was advised to cut down not stop
id have glass or 2 most weeks
2 DS in their late twenties - nowt worng with them
i know my personal experience e is one data point - but it was highly unusual for pregnant women to stop entirely and had only just been given out as advice a few years earlier.
imho pregnancy tends to put a lot of op women off alcohol anyway and naturwll7 you cutdown
yes it will increase a level o f risk- but that’s on top of other risk factors. If you’re generally following advice just stop beating yourself up. Many babies are born healthy to mums who don’t even know they’re pregnant in early weeks and drink and eat All the so called banned items in those first few weeks

There’s more alcohol in orange juice or bread. It might be worth speaking to your midwife about your anxiety lovely xx

Everyday stress will not harm the baby and spreading the misinformation it might really doesn't help anyone.

Is being so stressed that you vomit after taking a sip of alcohol ‘everyday’ to you?
it certainly isn’t to most people!

Yes, compared to the stress which has been shown to be problematic. Which is living in a war zone or through famine during pregnancy.

There is a world of difference between everyday stress and stress of being pregnant in a war zone. Making yourself physically sick as a result of one sip of mixed alcohol is somewere in the middle of that and is totally not a normal everyday stress reaction.

But it's highly unlikely to impact baby and it's really not helpful to suggest it is. I don't think telling people not to stress helps them stress less! (Ok, no one said "don't stress" explicitly but by suggesting it could damage baby the implication was there)

Actually in many species even moderate stress has been shown to have epigenetic effects. No reason to think humans are magically different - their physiology is the same. Doing the research is problematic in humans because of the ethics of causing adverse outcomes.

if someone is so stressed that they vomit from it, I’d be suspicious that their cortisol levels generally are a concern - certainly more so than a sip of alcohol.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5052760/

it’s worth while mentioning so that the OP can seek appropriate support and engage in stress reduction techniques.