Alcohol in early pregnancy

LegacyUser

My husband and I are both 26, and we stopped using contraception 2.5 years ago.

Althought I haven't gotten pregnant, we're not too worried yet, as we still have time to explore other options for pregnancy. However, while we have not been actively trying to conceive, and have not been tracking dates etc, we're beginning to acknowledge that we may end up having problems (there are no previously known health issues on either side.)

I stopped drinking altogether for the first year. For the last 1.5 years, I've returned to normal drinking - with the occasional binge.

My periods are very regular, so if I was late, I'd stop drinking straight away.

How soon can alcohol affect a pregnancy?

dublinlady

I'm not 100% on this but think 6-7 weeks as no transfer until then!

Lots of ppl don't know they are pregnant until then and so drink away. I think you have to life your life whilst TTC... Otherwise the stress be unhelpful..

lazygal

I didn't find out I was pregnant until I was five weeks gone. I had done several tests as we were trying but all were negative, even two days before my pregnancy was confirmed in hospital. As I had no symptoms and no positive tests, I drank several times in the five weeks. No harm done here, and the nurses were very reassuring. I think once you're past the six-seven week mark is the time to be careful, but even at that medical advice would suggest unless you're drinking very, very heavily on a regular basis things will be fine.

Neyite

Ah, OP, ya need to have a drink once in a while - you'd go mad otherwise

On both weekends of my two week wait before I got my positive, I had family events to attend, and I decided I was going to have a good few drinks and put the TTC stress out of my mind. I'm normally a moderate/light drinker but those two nights I let my hair down.

Of course, cut out alcohol when you get your positive which will probably be about week 4 or 5 , but a drink or two before that is no harm.

yellow hen

I was like Neyite, we had been trying for so long and I was getting a bit down so due a family holiday and wedding, I just thought feck it and forgot about everything and drank loads and even started smoking again

Got my bfp that month...:D