Drinking during pregnancy!

As my sister-in-law said on the 1st one she didn't, on the 2nd she had maybe 2 spritzers throughout the nine months, on the 3rd she had maybe one spritzer every 2-3 weeks, a special dinner or celebration etc. As a doctor said to a friend of mine, he had a patient with a huge drug habit, with 6 kids, so he saw an occasional spritzer as absolutely no problem.
Totally up to mum, and if dad really wants to express an opinion, so long as we are only talking very moderate, then maybe he shoud also give up for the nine months Remember mum isn't just an oven for the babe but also still a person in her own right :-)

barbiegirl wrote: »

As a doctor said to a friend of mine, he had a patient with a huge drug habit, with 6 kids, so he saw an occasional spritzer as absolutely no problem.
Remember mum isn't just an oven for the babe but also still a person in her own right :-)

so because the doctor dealt with someone who took heroin while pregnant they felt drink was ok? Right....

The mother is a person in her own right but when she takes a drink the child is taken the drink also.

If she smokes she forces the unborn child to smoke, the child doesn't have a choice the mother does.

barbiegirl wrote: »

To clarify on my response, I at all times said moderately. No need for such strong reactions. 1 spritzer every few weeks, not a bottle of whiskey every night.

but why bother with the 1? is it going to do anything for you?

by pouring 7 up into wine you're hardly drinking it for taste you just ruined the wine, just have the 7 up

it's 9 months, not for life, for 9 months

Quality wrote: »

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists conducted a study of over 400,000 women, all of whom had consumed alcohol during pregnancy. No case of fetal alcohol syndrome occurred and no adverse effects on children were found when consumption was under 8.5 drinks per week. A review of research studies found that fetal alcohol syndrome only occurred among alcoholics. No apparent risk to a child occurred when pregnant women consumes no more than one drink per day.
A study of pregnancies in eight European countries found that consuming no more than one drink per day did not appear to have any effect on fetal growth. A follow-up of children at 18 months of age found that those from women who drank during pregnancy, even two drinks per day, scored higher in several areas of development. An analysis of seven medical research studies involving over 130,000 pregnancies found that consuming two to 14 drinks per week did not increase the risk of giving birth to a child with either malformations or fetal alcohol syndrome.

This is all well and good, no one is stating that FAS/FES will be caused by small amounts of alcohol these are generally caused by heavy drinking...

So the above is irrelevant

LolaDub wrote: »

Jaffa where did you hear that?

Everyone knows that convenience food is ridden with E numbers, colourings etc.

Even french food has been spayed with chemicals to bring about growth.

Personally I don't see a probelm with a glass of wine every few weeks. My wife had 2 glasses during her pregnancy I think and I had no problem with it.

And it was not about the effect of alcohol. We were at a couple of parties and she wanted to feel like a "normal" person for half an hour and relax and not let everything be about being pregnant and the soon to arrive twins (don't flame me for saying normal..couldn't think of a proper word for it).
She was being very careful in every way throughout the pregnancy with food and what she was doing etc etc so I fully understood and had no problem with it as I said. We thought of it as a stress reliever which is needed.

I can understand people who abhor the idea but you must remember quality that pregnancy/child raising are very emotive topics. People tend to post things on here in a very dogmatic way sometimes and they come across as if they are saying my way or the highway. They generally don't mean it like this and are just trying to give advice from their own experience though. It is very hard to get correct tone into a typed message so it can easily end up in "differences of opinion" unnecessarily.

Not offering any scientific evidence to back up anything I say here...it is simply my opinion.