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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP I think people exaggerate on the alcohol thing, but it's hard to tell if you have an issue. Depending on how big a "serving" is, 1.5 servings a few times a week could be a lot in the 1st tri especially ... and people generally under-estimte how much they drink. If you could say honestly you had 1 white wine spritzer with 2 oz of wine about once a week ... no biggie. But if your "serving" is a giant 6oz glass of wine and you drink 3-4 nights/week ... that is a problem.

I don't like that your DH pressures you either.

[b]I will tell you the truth, which is that I drank lightly (like 2oz of wine 2x/week) and would not do it again if I had another baby. It's a very short period of time, and my general parenting values (now that I have a kid) are to be very discerning and risk averse about my child's health.[/b]

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Ditto exactly to this. I drank a little bit during my first pregnancy - maybe a half glass of wine 10 or so different times. My current pregnancy I haven't had more than a sip or two - it just doesn't feel worth it. Your child is just an amorphous concept at this point, but priorities and viewpoints change once you become a parent and I hope you won't be feeling quite so cavalier. On that note, I wonder about how your husband will adjust to being a parent...he doesn't seem to realize that he's going to have to get used to the idea of some (less fun) lifestyle changes in coming years?[/quote]

I actually had the opposite experience. With my first pregnancy, I was very strict about what I would and would not eat and drink. I basically completely restructured my diet from a person who spent A LOT of time at happy hour enjoying half price drinks and apps to a person who didn't eat anything fried, ate grocery stores out of broccoli and kale, stopped eating meat of any kind, and literally drank nothing but water for the 9 months I knew I was pregnant. During my second pregnancy, I continued drinking coffee throughout my pregnancy - not a lot, but a cup or two a day as directed by my OB to cope with fatigue. I went to three weddings while pregnant and had a glass of champagne at each one and didn't think twice about it. I tasted several beers my husband was drinking while I was pregnant (he likes weird new kinds of beer and I hadn't had these particular ones before). I told my OB all of this and she laughed and said that as far as she was concerned, three glasses of champagne and a few sips of beer doesn't even count as drinking.

If I had another baby and wanted a glass of wine or a beer, I would have no qualms whatsoever about having one standard serving of alcohol.

I do agree that OP's husband sounds like he has issues.[/quote]

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