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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I guess I was more middle of the road?  In my first (and only) pregnancy in 2011, I did a lot of research and was able to discern that most of the advice about pregnancy restrictions was not based on good evidence.  So I had a small cup of coffee every day, ate what I wanted (no restrictions on deli or tuna; ate lots of froyo fully loaded), and drank every now and then (honestly can't remember how much, but it was more than three glasses of champagne and tasting beers.)  In retrospect, it's not the total amount of alcohol I drank that bothers me, but the frequency in the 1st tri/2nd tri.  That I think was a bit cavalier.  [/quote]

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