No, not really. I craved wine something chronic in my second pregnancy and I had one sip of my H's glass once.
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No, not really. I craved wine something chronic in my second pregnancy and I had one sip of my H's glass once.
Yes, I had 1 or 2 light beers a week while PG
Yup. One drink on my birthday and one on my wedding day.
Nope - can't stand the smell of beer atm, and much as I love my red wine (and the smell of it), having an IVF pregnancy means I don't want to do anything to risk it. It's only a little break in my life so I figure it's worth it.
Very interesting to read Sloane about the study and I think is great that you are participating - as the 'no alcohol' thing from what I have read is all about the fact there have not been any studies done on the impact of very low levels of alcohol during pregnancy so it is easier to say not to have any at all (is like a lot of drugs/pharmacy products etc there hasn't been enough studies to say it is safe to have so they just state not to be used during pregnancy).
I have had the odd half glass of wine or odd half a beer (so half a pot/midi etc) during both pregnancies, and do the same now breastfeeding (so maybe once a week but did depend on stage of pregnancy - e.g. I probably didn't have any in first tri and more likely to have had the odd drink towards the end - with breastfeeding probably didn't have any in first 6 weeks or so, and now if have one will be when I have a big gap in feeds). As there is no real research on low levels of drinking my personal choice is based on the anecdotal evidence surrounding me where people have drunk in very low levels during pregnancy and the fact I acknowledge there is a level of risk with everything we do and judge what is my own acceptable risk level. I pretty much apply the "a little bit of what you fancy always does you good" rule to most things.
When I got a BFN at the beginning of this pregnancy I was really disappointed and gave myself a girlie night to make myself feel better lol - I had a bottle of white wine (about 4 standard drinks) that I'd been given months earlier as a gift and a block of chocolate while I watched notting hill :lol:
Then a week later I got a BFP and felt really guilty!! I haven't had a drop since - although I've missed it when I'm cooking dinner.
I didn't drink at all with DD during pregnancy or BF.
I figure it's really such a short time - I don't mind avoiding it. I'd rather avoid it mainly because I don't know for sure that it's ok.
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Sloane, Im in the same study but at the Womens....(acqa or something like that)
I don't drink but funnily I craved Baileys throughout most of my pregnancy with DD. I never had it though but as soon as I had her the craving went away.
I haven't had any with this pregnancy.
My DH and his whole family enjoy a drink most nights and he thinks I'm being silly for not wanting to drink (anytime not just when pregnant) but I never really got into it and don't see why I should force myself to drink when I don't enjoy it. I just ignore them now and do my own thing. My MIL used to make a big deal about buying 'coke zero' especially for me when we went to stay at their place (1.25lt drunk over two weeks).....apparently that's worse than alcohol in their mind!
Yes, a quarter glass of champagne at my cousin's wedding & a sip of a cascade light during Eurovision... :lol:
yeah occasionaly i'd have 1 glass of wine
ds1 i actually had my hens day and was pregnant but didnt know it yet, i think i had the biggest day of my life and drank lots, boy was i worried when i found out i was UTD 2 days late (and 10 days before the wedding) so on the wedding day i had a glass of half champaigne and half orange juice (also cause none of the guests new we were pg)
ds2 - my ob said it was ok to even have 1 glass a day.... i didnt but if we went out or something occaisonally i'd have a glass
ds3 - because of morning sickness i definatley didnt even feel like a glass.... then second trimester there have been a few times (NYE, australia day type celebrations) but i have bad reflux and as soon as i take a sip of wine the reflux sets in so not worth it.
I did at the end of the pregnancy ... but half the time i just didnt feel like it
No, I haven't had any alcohol during my three pg, but every now and then I crave beer (my fave drink).
With DD1, no.
With DD2 I got pretty blind for my 23rd birthday. 2 days later I found out i was pregnant. Though in my defence, i tested the morning of my bday party and it didnt come up so decided to drown my sorrows...
Nope, not a huge drinker at the best of times so was quite easy for me not to.
Yep I was preg when we got married so i enjoyed a glads of bubbles
Nope no alcohol for me. When we were TTC it was rare for me to have a drink also.
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I used to be a massive drinker. Blind drunk every weekend. (yep. Classy :rolleyes:) I stopped a few months before conceiving DS and haven't touched any kind of alcohol since.
So no, not while pregnant and not while breastfeeding.
With DS, none whatsoever
With DD, I craved beer! Hard to walk away from one bought for you! But at my cousins wedding in November, I had 1 shandy glass - tiny bit of beer and the rest lemonade. My boss also bought me one in Sept (when the craving was really strong) and I had a quarter of the bottle - but that's all I drank because my cravings were fulfilled
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None with any of my pregnancies.
Regards,
Dianne
I craved baileys during my recent pregnancy too! However, since he was born the craving went away and i still haven't had a drink. i don't drink during pregnancy, and don't think i have even haf a full drink since i was first pregnant with my DD. i don't have a problem with drinking while breastfeeding, i just haven't felt like it. i thought that i would have a drink (baileys!) during my recent labour but forgot all about it at the time.:
I never drank when TTC or in my first trimester with any of my pregnancies (apart from a half glass of bubbly on NYE when I was about 8 weeks pregnant with DS1). However in 2nd and 3rd trimester I indulged, no more than 1 unit a night and 2 nights a week. And not every week. But I did enjoy wine and I don't believe a small amount would hurt my babies.
Yep I've had prob 4 or 5 glasses of low alcohol wine since I got pregnant with my ob's permission. I had one glass of rose when pregnant with Anais but never anything else. Amazing how much more relaxed I am this time around with what I eat/drink, prob too blasé! I'm not a big drinker normally and didn't drink much at all while breastfeeding.
Nope - can't stand the taste at the mo, same with caffeine (which I miss more!).
Only a taste every now and then with this pg (& I mean a sip or two of a special wine DH has opened- maybe half a dozen times) and when pg with DS it was only toasting sparkling wine as we had a few weddings to go to while I was pg.
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Because it took me years and years to conceive, and at my age, i knew i would be having my one and only, i could not bring myself to take the risk, no matter how small. So i would say "no". But then i remember, one time i was invited over to a friend's house for a formal dinner, her relatives were there from overseas, i was talking with them, everything was going so smooth, she had gone to so much effort, and we were enjoying the night, and THEN i suddenly realised I HAD JUST DRUNK HALF A GLASS OF WHITE WINE! I was in the early stages, and for that brief amount of time, FORGOT i was pregnant, and was acting like i would normally. i was mortified and stopped immediately the second it dawned on me. So "no", with one slip up.
Yes, I drank with both of my pregnancies. Not to excess though, usually only 1 drink with dinner or something when I felt like it every few weeks.
I had a few glasses of wine in my first few weeks before I knew I was pregnant. As soon as I got a bfp I had nothing, and 7 months breastfeeding I've still had nothing.
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Some interesting literature is starting to emerge. It is no longer true that we have no studies discussing the effect of minimal drinking on the fetus and on children born to women who drank during pregnancy.
Here is just one such study with some peer reviewed references.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
Nope no alcohol here, but then again I wasn't tempted either cos the smell made me dry retch.
I did often have a glass of wine with dinner when bf tho, mainly had ebm for if DS needed it at those times.
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Thanks for that, interesting literature :) I had read some of it before but that's a good summary.
This was very interesting:
It was told to my SIL when she heavily drank in the early stages of her pregnancy (she was unaware she was pregnant). The Drug and Alcohol abuse centre almost laughed at her (not in a horrible way) when she said she had concerns. So I found that quite interesting. I think our perception may have gone from careless to over-cautious. BUT I also understand why being over-cautious is better for some people, so please don't think I am knocking anyone at all. It's just good to have some accurate information available. And please don't think that I'm saying that those that did have a drink or two weren't cautious enough.:
An analysis of seven major medical research studies involving over 130,000 pregnancies suggests that consuming two to 14 drinks per week does not increase the risk of giving birth to a child with either malformations or fetal alcohol syndrome.
Negative effects appear to be related to relatively higher levels of consumption per occasion, and hence, to higher blood alcohol content levels. Thus, it appears to be very important never to consume more than one drink in any one day while pregnant.
Hope I've made sense and not offended anyone :/
None the first time around. A couple here & there during my pregnancies with the other 3. Usually my choice was a half nip in a middy glass so it wasn't a strong drink. No premix drinks.
Never enough to feel the effects. Just for the flavour... or to destress once.
Thanks for posting the link to that study, is a good summary.
Yes, with my first pg I didn b/c I didn't know I was pg, I was travelling overseas and enjoying 1 or 2 glasses a night with dinner. With my other pgs I stopped b/c of my multiple m/c & I didn't want to increase any risk to my babies, (apart from DD, all my other pg ended in m/c) or be wondering 'what if?' I have also stopped whilst doing IVF
for the bulk of my pregnancy with DD, i had a similar mindset to what Gigi had - i'd worked so hard and suffered so much to get pregnant with her, i was petrified of doing anything "wrong" that could put her at any sort of risk. i believed (and still do) that it would be my only pregnancy taken to term, so i wanted to make sure i did everything right. i couldn't learn from my mistakes this time and do it better/right next time. so yes, i was probably OTT cautious. as well as cutting alcohol, i cut out coke (which i was told to have one can daily in my teens as migraine preventative - by a neurologist! - was cheaper than the meds i was on, and worked more effectively!). so yes, i was very cautious - and it wasn't age, it wasn't that my pregnancy was any more precious than any other - it simply was the way i felt at the time. just because i felt that way, didn't mean i thought anyone else was wrong - it was just me kwim??
anyway - it was in the last 4 weeks or so that i started to crave beer when DH was home. maybe longer than that - i know i wanted a beer when we got evac'd due to the fires - but the unstoppable craving was around a month before she was born. a wise BB'er (love ya rouge!) told me to just have some - a glass now and again wouldn't hurt - and it was probably better to drink it in a small amount then to end up with a craving so bad i over indulged. so i drank about half a glass every four or five days when DH was having a beer, and got over it pretty quickly!
My hen's night was about a week before I found out I was pregnant with Ianto, and I got fall-down-throw-up-pass-out drunk :redface: I think one of the first threads I started here was asking if that would harm the baby... Thankfully, everyone said it was probably before implantation anyway :)
When I was about twelve weeks with Amelia, I had a tiny sip of the free champagne sent to our hotel room for our anniversary. That's it.
I'm not a drinker anyway, so both instances were about all I would have had to drink anyway, pregnant or otherwise.
I'm not much of a drinker anymore (I got a LOT of that out of my system in my 20s). I also had to use IVF to fall pregnant. For me it just hasn't been worth the risk to have even one drink, not that I have really felt like it at all. I feel for you girls that have suffered from cravings for booze during pregnancy! That must be hard!
Janie xxx
Yes is the answer to your question LMS. Only I can judge myself and im not bothered what others think of me. Never more than one a week with DD, and stuff all after 19 weeks with DS (complicated and high risk pregnancy).
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sorry if I was a bit harsh in my post yesterday, I blame PMT. Next time I feel like that I promise to step away from the keyboard and count to ten instead of posting :lol:
Naw trav. It happens to the best of us :) :hug: xxx