Opinion Why I Drank While I Was Pregnant

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Why I Drank While I Was Pregnant​

I took my pregnancy test after drinking a yard-long margarita at a downtown festival, right before pouring myself a glass of wine.

I wasn't trying to conceive and I was on birth control. I felt confident that only one pink line would show up, but I wanted a little peace of mind. I didn't want to be drinking during pregnancy, after all.

I'd been feeling a little off lately. There was that one night not too long ago when I had forgotten to take my pill in the morning, and I took it at night instead. But what are the odds, right? Next to nothing.

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When I picked up the test three minutes later, there was no mistaking two bold pink lines. I was pregnant.

I took a sip of my wine, then poured the rest down the sink. I didn't really think twice about the margarita I had consumed earlier or the daily drink or two I had enjoyed over the past few weeks.

It was summer, there had been barbecues and events, and even if there hadn't been, I don't need an excuse as a grown woman to enjoy a reasonable amount of alcohol as I see fit.

The CDC, however, doesn't see it that way. Those "pre-pregnancy test" drinks should have been causing major concern and absolute panic.

According to their recommendations, any woman of childbearing age who isn't on birth control should abstain from alcohol completely, just in case they get pregnant. They also made sure to note that women drinking alcohol leads to pregnancy, don't you know?

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Setting aside the deeply troubling sexist vibes of these new guidelines, the CDC's recommendations aren't helping anyone, least of all women experiencing unplanned pregnancies.

Dealing with an unexpected pregnancy (or even a wanted pregnancy) is incredibly stressful. These recommendations do nothing to help women positioned to bring a child into the world. If anything, it's causing more unnecessary worry without even bothering to bring any hard evidence to the table.

Of course, drinking during pregnancy can be problematic. And I'm not downplaying the seriousness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

However, the CDC is using the argument that because no known amount of alcohol consumption is safe, then any little bit must be dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.

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I, for one, am calling BS. I went on to drink a small glass of wine or two per week throughout my pregnancy once I got over the initial shock of it being unplanned.

Once I had adjusted to the fact that I was going to bring another baby into the world, I was still overwhelmed by the stress it brought on. I had suffered from postpartum depression after the birth of my son and we had decided not to have any more children.

I didn't want the risks or the horrible anxiety that came with pregnancy. Yet here I was, facing all that uncertainty again. Darn right I needed a drink.

I never felt guilty or like I was doing something wrong by having a small drink while I was pregnant. In fact, I'm pretty sure it did me and my baby a world of good to take a bit of the edge off.

The occasional drink helped keep my stress levels low — and ultimately it contributed to a healthier pregnancy for me.

I went into birth calm and confident, and never once worrying about the irrevocable damage I might have caused by my little weekly glass of cabernet. My baby turned out beautiful and healthy, just as I knew she would be.

I don't look back at my pregnancy and wish I had done things differently. I don't believe, in hindsight, that the CDC's recommendations would have changed my mind. If there were noted cases of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome in women who drank moderately while pregnant, it would be a whole different story.

The risk simply wasn't there, so I stand by my choice — and so should you. Cheers to having agency over your own body.

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I don’t know, 1-2 small glasses of wine per week is probably literally fine, especially if you have food in your stomach. I personally would not but they literally do it in Europe all the time. Is it the most responsible thing? No, but fetal alcohol syndrome is usually from women who are binge drinking.
What I think is weird is how many pregnant women think smoking weed is somehow good for your baby (it’s not) or makes them smarter etc.
 
Do yoga or something if you're stressed you dipshit. Fetal alcohol syndrome is a real thing.
 
However, the CDC is using the argument that because no known amount of alcohol consumption is safe, then any little bit must be dangerous, dangerous, dangerous.
If there’s no known safe limit of a thing, that thing is assumed to be dangerous and potentially dangerous at all levels yes. That’s what no safe limit means.
Alcohol is a teratogen, there’s no two ways about it. It crosses the placenta, it builds up in the amniotic fluid and it’s excreted at a fraction of the rate the mother can break it down , so it concentrates and hangs around. The safest thing to do is just to not drink, how hard is that? Clearly too hard for a lot of people. Alcohol is far more damaging than ‘being a bit stressed.’
The other reason they don’t have the ‘x amount is probably ok’ guidelines is that people who do drink use it as an excuse to drink and people are very bad at gauging unit input. They also tend to drink up to the limit.
Full on FAS is generally obvious but the rate of alcohol damaged pregnancies is way higher than the rate of FAS. FASD occurs at about 4-5% of children, with rates between 1-9% depending on ‘community.’
huge number of children born to middle class mums who ‘just have a few tee her’ have issues. The risk is highest in the first trimester as well, which is why they tell you to not drink if you’re trying to conceive, you daft bint. The author acts like anything before she found out gets a cheat code and doesn’t matter. Just don’t drink for nine months. If you can’t do that you’re addicted.
Speakeasy Electric said:
but they literally do it in Europe all the time
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Honestly I think this is more Cope and justification. Most euro countries frown on pregnant women drinking.
 
it's a little early to start this one's thread, but I guess it's good to get a head start for eighteen years from now
so what will it be?
Minecraft?
Trains?
Sonic?
 
XYZpdq said:
it's a little early to start this one's thread, but I guess it's good to get a head start for eighteen years from now
so what will it be?
Minecraft?
Trains?
Sonic?
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This day and age those are better than other alternatives. COUGH bathtub estrogen COUGH
 
Eh. Life is a terminal disease I have learned to stop getting emotional about it and just laugh. Spergy foid took too many words to excuse her addiction though. No one cares cunt!
 
Women who confess to drink alcohol during pregnancy should be disqualified from getting any help from their country in raising their tard babies.
 
Otterly said:
Honestly I think this is more Cope and justification. Most euro countries frown on pregnant women drinking.
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Definitely. Not drinking during pregnancy is so standard that my aunt avoided showing that had stopped drinking alcoholic beverages so that people wouldn't know she was pregnant. It was planned and wanted pregnancy but she didn't want the announcement before the 2nd trimester in case of miscarriage.
 
Small amounts are propably not that huge a danger but why risk it?

Not doing substances for 9 months is a lesser pain than having a tard baby, even if the chance is low. Ask Barb.
 
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As a partial abbo with a lot of abbo family, I've got 3 cousins who definitely have FASD and many more I'm sure have it but aren't diagnosed cause racism or something.

It absolutely ruins you and any potential you had in. You're fucked before you even take your first breath and life will be a constant up hill battle for you.

It is also 100% fucking avoidable. If you had any love or respect for your future child, you'd give up the grog as soon as you find out you're expecting.

I'm slightly MATI at this bitch ngl.
 
Thankfully abortions are harder to get now so drunk feminist sluts can shit out more tards. That's what the world needs. Since they are going to be second hand drunken retards they will fall for feminist bullshit easier. Also more niggers. More niggers feminists and retards. The world is going to be a wonderful place.
 
Look, I only smoked a little bit of crack while I was pregnant with Quantravious and he turned out fine.
 
Dunkleosteus said:
As a partial abbo with a lot of abbo family, I've got 3 cousins who definitely have FASD and many more I'm sure have it but aren't diagnosed cause racism or something.

It absolutely ruins you and any potential you had in. You're fucked before you even take your first breath and life will be a constant up hill battle for you.

It is also 100% fucking avoidable. If you had any love or respect for your future child, you'd give up the grog as soon as you find out you're expecting.

I'm slightly MATI at this bitch ngl.
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These alcoholics will pay their remaining lifetime for the nine months it would've taken to not drink or the few seconds it would've taken to put on a condom.

Some people should not be parents, I don't give a shit if you think that's abominable or classist or whatever.
 
Pregnancy is a pain in the ass. There's always some shitbird around to say "should you really be..." and the list is endless. No tuna in case there's mercury. No deli meat in case there's some disease in it. No caffeine. No painkillers. No junk food. No lifting. Any single thing you ask about, the answer is, "never been studied, so no, just in case". Apparently it's unethical to study these things in pregnant women and anyway no pregnant woman will volunteer to be studied to see if things damage her baby, who knew.

My general approach to most of these things is therefore, oh fuck off. But alcohol, smoking, and drugs are pretty much the holy trinity of Fucking Do Not.

Also, anyone who says they need to drink to "take the edge off" has a problem. If you need to numb yourself with alcohol to face daily life and you can't find another way to do it, you're self-medicating and you need to get help for whatever your actual issue is.
 
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