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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the moms in my peer group here (highly educated, babies in our thirties, etc) had a half glass when out to dinner or sipped out of our husbands' drinks on occasion after about the midway point.  Not nightly and not more than one drink, but not abstention either.  My sister didn't know she was pregnant until 10 weeks or so and went on a college spring break trip during that time - no abstention.  That kid is in gifted and talented classes now and has great comedic timing.

OTOH, I completely abstained in the weeks leading up to TTC and for the first tri.   And though I am an occasional pot smoker, that's out the window for 3 months before TTC and until I'm done breastfeeding.  You've got to figure out where your own tolerance is.[/quote]

Genuinely hilarious how this poster, and oddly, many others, have come to understand light drinking while pregnant as way of signaling that they are indeed highly educated (because they can easily wade through and analyze the research that the rest of us are simply too dumb to handle). Love that you threw in your age, too! Lmao. I had my first at 29 (currently pregnant again and hoping you’ll like me more now that I’m also old like you!) and abstained entirely, but clearly that’s because I was an immature dumbass who lacked the sophistication of these wise, worldly women. What a sheep I was!

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Sorry if you felt judged.  I mentioned my age to contrast with the anecdote of my sister who got pregnant in college - different edges of a spectrum and different "consumed alcohol during this trimester" stories, but both healthy kids.  There's nothing wrong with abstaining completely if that's what works for you, but it's also explicitly not what OP was asking about.[/quote]

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