Hello, I'm about 5 1/2 weeks along and I obviously haven't been drinking but i went to a wedding this past Saturday, September 20th, and I was told that it would not hurt to drink a couple of glasses of red wine. I did drink about 2 1/2 glasses and now I'm incredibly concerned that I damaged the growing fetus in some way or another and I can't stop thinking about it. Do you think I should be concerned?
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An urgent pregnancy question regarding alcohol
The official recommendation is total abstinence from alcohol for women planning pregnancy, at conception, and during pregnancy because a safe level of prenatal alcohol consumption has not been determined. Nevertheless, most cases of problems such as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome are usually seen in women who have chronically consumed alcohol during pregnancy. If you only had 2 to 2 & a half glasses of red wine once, I seriously doubt you need to be concerned...Just don't drink anymore during your pregnancy.
While there are no randomized prospective studies on alcohol consumption in early pregnancy, the available data suggest that most fetal alcohol syndrome babies are born to women who consume alcohol in great excess. If you truly only had two and a half glasses of wine my gut feeling is your baby will be normal.
Nearly all experts recommend complete abstinence from alcohol. No one is going to be able to truly tell you a safe dose due to differences in ability to metabolize alcohol. Within two hours of drinking, the babies blood alcohol level is the same as the moms and the baby depends on mom to break down the alcohol.
Just don't drink any more and all should be well.
Just don't drink any more and all should be well.
We don't know how much alcohol serves as a threshold to precipitate fetal alcohol syndrome. It is doubtful that the amount of alcohol you consumed in 2 1/2 glasses of red wine would precipitate the syndrome. The problem becomes that this serves as a spring board to more consumption of alcohol. In essence, don't worry about the 2 glasses of red wine, but be very careful about the continued consumption of alcohol.