how much alcohol did you drink in pregnancy?

Question

some non ?

i'm not asking cause i'm going to so no attacks please just asking

just so you know a friend drank with two kids (the odd glass) and non with one and she was stillborn so i don't think facts are always right

Answer 1

About a drink a month.

And, to be honest, I expected to drink more; it's just that my taste buds are weird now. The UK gov't suggests two units of alcohol a week, and I think that's quite reasonable. A friend with a PhD in biological chemistry researched it quite a bit -- consider that she'd have access to a lot of academia on the topic and not just web sites saying "It's all bad!" -- and figured that a miniscule glass of red with dinner _daily_ was the thing to do. (Her children are, of course, better than fine.)

The idea that "any amount is harmful" is ridiculous, and I wish women weren't so complacent about being lied to.

I encourage all the naysayers here to hit http://scholar.google.com/, and do their own research, and DO THEIR OWN THINKING.

From the first result for a "light drinking pregnancy" search there:

"Abstaining for foetal health: The fiction that even light drinking is dangerous
There is a strong ideological and political movement in the USA to convince pregnant women not to drink any alcohol. An examination of the research literature on the results of drinking during pregnancy does not provide any evidence that light drinking is harmful to the foetus."

YOU'VE ALL BEEN LIED TO. And manipulated, and coerced by fear. Why that doesn't upset more people, I don't know.

"The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists recently conducted a large study including 400,000 American women, all of whom had consumed alcohol during pregnancy. Not a single case of fetal alcohol syndrome occurred and no adverse effects on children were found when consumption was under 8.5 drinks per week. 3

A recent review of research studies found that fetal alcohol syndrome only occurs among alcoholics. The evidence is clear that there is no apparent risk to a child when the pregnant woman consumes no more than one drink per day."

http://www2.potsdam.edu/hansondj/FetalAlcoholSyndrome.html

"Lipp and Whitten, whose "To Your Health" was published in 1995, are among an increasing number of doctors and researchers who feel that pregnant women have no reason to fear drinking a glass of wine every day. As revealed by contributing editor Thomas Matthews in the August 31, 1994 issue of the "Wine Spectator" magazine which was devoted largely to this controversy, "there is even new research that shows that moderate drinking during pregnancy may actually help the development of the child after birth."

...Feeling even more strongly, Dr. Michael Samuels of New York City's Doctor's Hospital says that the data has been "turned around for the purpose of frightening women", ...

Some studies go as far as to indicate that light to moderate drinking may actually improve the chance of successful pregnancies. A 1993 study published in the "American Journal of Epidemiology" by Ruth Little and Clarence Weinberg concluded, for example, that there were fewer stillbirths and fewer losses of fetus due to early labor among women who consumed a moderate level of alcohol. That some alcohol can be protective against preterm birth is also supported by Dr. Martha Direnfeld of Haifa University who points out that when used properly, alcohol is known to stop unwanted uterine contractions, and thus has "saved many pregnancies that might otherwise have spontaneously aborted." More than this, Dr. Robert Sokol of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse in Detroit has shown that it is light drinkers and not abstainers who have the best chance of having a baby of optimal birth weight and in their book "Alcohol and the Fetus" and Doctors Henry Rosset and Lynn Wiener have presented data that shows that children of moderate drinkers tend to score highest on developmental tests at the age of 18 months."

http://dovercanyon.typepad.com/women_wine_critics_board/2006/01/wine_and_pregna.html

Answer 2

me and a lady at work both got pregnant within 2 months of each other, i havnt had a drink of alchole since i found out however after so far through her pregnancy her doctor said she could have one a week or something like that. she came to work one day and said she had had a glass of champaigne the night before and the way the baby was moving inside her changed for about 4 hours. this convinced me i was doing the right thing, she just laughed it off however. im due tomorow and turning 21 in a month however because i wana breastfeed i wont be able to drink again till im almost 22 min, this dosnt bother me as i want whats best for my baby, i just dont understand the choice to drink if someone elses life and body could be effected by it.

Answer 3

None- I dont really drink to begin with. But my aunt however drank all through her pregnancy- not alot but maybe a glass of wine at dinner or at special occasions. When my family saw her doing this they all flipped out and called her an unfit mother. But it seems that her obstetrician told her it was okay to still have a glass of wine once in a while- before the idea of fetal alcohal syndrome, women used to do it all the time. I dont know if I agee with this but there are people out there who drink through there pregnancy without regrets. I dont know

Answer 4

None, I don't drink except for maybe once a year, so I never had that accidental drink before I knew I was pregnant, and I didn't drink alcohol at all after finding out I was.

Answer 5

I drank a few times before I found out I was pregnant. As soon as I found out I had NONE!

Answer 6

I had the occasional glass of red wine with a nice dinner. I continued to drink coffee too. Both of my children are A-OK.

Answer 7

None at all. I have never drank alcohol in my life and i am 27 years old.

Answer 8

I've had four kids, and I drank NO alcohol while pregnant or breast feeding.

Answer 9

I had one glass of red whine on new years. It's not worth risking your childs health

Answer 10

I drank/drink NO alcohol. It's not worth the possible harm it may cause.