Cannot drink alcohol after having kids (without feeling horrible)
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Anonymous
LOL! |
Anonymous
| Then don’t drink alcohol OP and own it 😄 Our bodies change as we get older. Instopped drinking in my mid 30s for the same reason. My body cannot handle it. You know what else I can’t handle? Eating huge meals in the late evening… staying up all night… waking up late even after a long night… heavy fried foods. So many things! I guess it’s part of being older. But you know what I feel better now than I ever did in my 20s. Perhaps I wasn’t listening to my body back then either but the signals my body was sending weren’t that strong back then 😄 |
Anonymous
Me too! once I hit my 40s I can have one drink but it I have more I'll pay for it the next day. |
Anonymous
Waking up late? |
Anonymous
| I think it’s an age thing. Also, I’ve noticed mixing matters a lot more now in terms of how bad I may feel the next day. I don’t feel as bad if I stick to either wine or a certain type of cocktail. |
Anonymous
| 45, female here. Was a huge drinker in college and twenties and hardly ever got hung over. I guess I had good tolerance then. Now, if I have more than 2 glasses of wine, I feel like bloated and headachy the next day. It's part of aging and yes having kids. Parenting hungover is a form of torture and a mistake you will not make more than once. One thing that has helped me if I do happen to go over my 2 drink limit is to drink a ton of water right before bed and maybe have a small late night snack. Tends to curb the hangover the next day, but really the best way to avoid it is to limit yourself to just 1 or 2. I hardly drink now except 2 on the weekends--sometimes one each weekend night or sometimes 2 in one night. otherwise it's just not worth feeling gross. |
Anonymous
| 54 and I’m done after 2 glasses. I can’t sleep or function the next day if I have 3+ glasses. I used to have a much higher tolerance. |
Anonymous
+1. So much better than drinking and never had better sleep. |
Anonymous
My great aunt just died at 105 and still has two drinks per night to the end. Baffling! |
Anonymous
| This is kind of a self-perpetuating thing in that if you start drinking less, your liver makes less sense f the enzymes that break down alcohol. If you were to start drinking more you would probably not feel as bad because your lover would start making more of the enzymes again. Not saying anyone should do that if they don’t want to. Just that it may not be as much due to age as you think. It may just be that you cut way down on drinking at some point and your liver responded accordingly. Other people your age or older who have maintained a higher level of drinking won’t feel as bad after a few drinks because they’re still making enough of the enzymes. |
Anonymous
| I'm the same way. Now I drink rose wine with a ton of ice cubes so I can feel like I'm drinking more than I am. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, I just don't really enjoy alcohol anymore. I wish I did because I enjoy wineries and breweries and tastings, but it makes me feel awful. Cannabis gummies for the win now! |
Anonymous
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Here to report that I went out with friends last night and had 5 drinks and got home at 1am and am barely functioning today and filled with regret and nausea
However, it was a really fun night |
Anonymous
I do not believe any amount of alcohol is a good thing for a nursing child. Prove me wrong. |
Anonymous
ITA, they have testing strips for this too. You just have to wait to breastfeed, maybe that's what PP meant? Alcohol leaves your body and your milk too, then it's safe to BF. So, generally, you don't need to be sober the entire time you are BFing, just sober when it actually comes to giving milk. It's just complicates logistics if you like to drink, so you tend to switch to less drinking overall, or only social events or special occasions. |