I had the odd drink with both my pregnancies, more so with my second. Tended to be at social functions and I would have a glass or 2 of champagne (ok, it may have been 3 at the BB Christmas dinner).

It was when I was pregnant with DD2 that an article came out about drinking in pregnancy. It basically said what has already been said, that alcohol cannot pass through until the placenta is functioning. Also that the blanket ban on drinking in pregnancy was prompting some women to seek terminations as they had been drinking before finding out they were pregnant and thought they had done major damage to their baby. So some experts believed the the no alcohol rule was causing more harm than good.