Can I have 1 glass of Prosecco at 4 weeks pregnant?

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Just that really…just found out that I’m pregnant and I’m invited to my best friends wedding on Sunday when I will be 4 weeks + 3 days. I’m not planning on drinking during my pregnancy but I’m in two minds if one glass of Prosecco to cheer the couple would be ok, considering that it’s so early days.

Miscarriage in the first trimester is usually caused by a faulty chromosomes. Anxiety does not cause miscarriage. ‘Alcohol’ can increase the risk but - and I am reading between the lines here - this is unlikely to mean a glass of Prosecco at four weeks.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/miscarriage/causes/

It’s really very hard to diagnose FASD. Most children who are affected don’t present with the characteristic facial features. If they don’t have them, they can be just as severely affected mentally as those that do. And it’s a spectrum, so some children can be affected to a mild degree. All of this makes it very difficult to know the precise effects of alcohol on pregnancies, hence the advice to abstain completely. It is a life-long condition which is 100% preventable - not the case for many disabilities.

In case I’m coming across as preachy, I drank a few glasses of wine in my pregnancies. My kids are fine, I think. But I now work with children in care who are statistically much more likely to have FASD and I run training in it for schools. I know a lot more about it now than I did then, and what I know now means I would abstain completely if I were to have another pregnancy.

This ^

I wouldn't.
Accept a glass when offered and take one sip so you can be part of the toast, but why drink a whole glass if you're already worrying if it's the right thing to do?

Of course you could - but listen to your body

My first symptom - before I realised it was possible - was going off alcohol - had one sip and that was enough - thought it odd at the time

There is no safe amount of alcohol in pregnancy. It's toxic at any stage of the fetus or baby.

Yes. I think a glass is fine. Make sure you’re well hydrated and we’ll fed otherwise. Have fun and congratulations.

TBH I think there are so many alternatives now ,why risk it? I am not pregnant ,but I have taken a lot of painkillers for my knee .So many nice "softies " to choose from .Sparkling Elderberry,Old fashioned lemonade ,Alcohol free lagers and even a 0% Gin ! I love the Elderberry one and will be drinking it on my Birthday meal this week.

I wouldn’t. You can still cheer for the happy couple without a Prosecco and no one will notice if you’re drinking or not.

Yet there is no actual evidence that small amounts harm the baby ?

Such contradictory data

Babies born in inner city / heavily polluted areas are harmed however

So don't lecture a woman about one glass of wine if you drive a car or have. Atwood burner

I didn't have any alcohol at all during both of my pregnancies whether it was early days or any other time. And I was pregnant on new millennium eve. I just don't think it's too much to ask to abstain for 9 months. And I bloody love a drink!

It's your choice OP but, you know you are pregnant so it's probably better to avoid the Prosecco and raise a glass of AF NoSecco.

Not everyone know's they are pregnant so early on and have had drinks before they knew, me included. When you know tho you will probably feel guilty.
Buy the nonsecco & put it behind the bar, or drink non alcoholic lager if they do it if you don't want anyone to know. I lived on nonsecco and becks blue during pregnancy.

Congratulations on your pregnancy! I read on the GDUK website about the BRAIN analysis (her article is about decisions regarding labour inductions, but I think it's brillant and applies to many decisions in pregnancy, including drinking alcohol or not):
B- what are the Benefits?
R- what are the Risks?
A- what are the Alternatives?
IN- what does my INtuition/gut feeling tells me?

It's your (informed) decision to make.

It's completely safe to do this as your placenta is not yet connected, so there's no blood to baby transfer.

@saffronsoup

No, the foetus already has all its genetic material at conception!

Nope! Prenatal stresses and the intrauterine environment interact with genetic material and can alter risks and development. It isn’t a what you had at conception is what you have at birth.

No m'dear

@saffronsoup

Yes 'interact' - but not new or different genes!

I didn’t find out I was pregnant until about 5 weeks (surprise pregnancy) and had a loooot of wine a few days before finding out (drunk no more as soon as I found out) The midwife said it was fine and my baby is now a toddler and seems fine!

Interactions cause alterations so yes different genetic expression based on the environmental influences.

I am really surprised by how many people think the fetus develops separate from the mother and therefore nothing she does or nothing about the uterine environment has any effect on fetal development. Somewhere there is a serious failure in teaching.

A thread of adults encouraging a pregnant woman to drink because they don’t believe alcohol can impact on fetal development is shocking.

@saffronsoup

No one is encouraging her to get blotto. But also, she's talking about a SINGLE glass of Prosecco, if foetuses weren't resilient to a vanishingly small level of alcohol via the absolutely minimal level of uterine transfer then the human race would have died out long ago.

Why not get blotto? If there is no risk and the fetus isn’t connected to the mother by the placenta and therefore not impacted what the mother does, why not get blotto’d every night if she wants. If there is no risk and no interaction between mother and fetus, why would frequency or quantity matter?

Yes.