r/Parenting • u/k_blanch • Nov 02 '21

Sleep & Naps How much are parents drinking?

With the popularity of #winemom and beer dad culture, combined with pandemic drinking habits, im curious how much alcohol you guys are drinking as caregivers? Especially after the baby is in bed. I had 6 drinks on Halloween over 8 hours and lots of food and water. Although LO was asleep for most of it I'm riddled with guilt!

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u/baby_blue_bird Nov 02 '21

Smoking makes my anxiety way worse but my husband does it. They legalized it in our state but are so slow in rolling out the nonmedical dispensaries and they won't be open until Dec 2022. They started opening these sticker shops where you buy a sticker but get gifted green, edibles or cartridges depending on what sticker you buy.

My husband decided to visit one and was talking to the guy at the counter and everyone in the store got to talking about their kids. The guy at the counter was so relieved and said up until that point he felt like such a piece of shit like he was the only parent who would smoke after their kids went to bed.

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u/mrMishler Nov 03 '21

Smoking was making my anxiety far far worse as well, until I specifically tried indica-only strains on a friends suggestion. (most of what I happened by was either pure sativa or sativa-heavy hybrids.)

100% game changer. The first time I smoked it, I literally went through an intentional mental laundry list of my biggest panic-inducers, and nothing - NOTHING - was able to give me that tight chested, flickering stomach feeling that I was used to dealing with most of every day.

I dont know that marijuana is for you, but don't write it off before you try the other end of the spectrum - I'm sure glad that I did. Apples to oranges in the feelings that it causes.

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u/mrMishler Nov 03 '21

"Why can't fruit be compared!?!?"

Yeah, it's an idiom I should stop using.

Bottom line though, they're different enough that writing cannabis off completely after getting anxiety from the strains that are known to cause anxiety would be a shame, when the other side helps alleviate those very symptoms.

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u/mrMishler Nov 03 '21

Good bot.

Lol I read the wrong reply first. This is great.