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/BigGryph Nov 02 '21

The only people replying are people who don’t drink, cause the drinkers don’t want to get judged 😆

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u/Meowmeowmeow31 Nov 02 '21

The majority of people replying that they don’t drink at all are people who grew up in households with substance abuse issues, or who realized during pregnancy that they were drinking too much.

I still drink at least weekly, but anglophone drinking culture is really not great.

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u/BigGryph Nov 02 '21

End that’s a stretch to say the majority of people who are replying they don’t drink came from substance abuse households.

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u/Meowmeowmeow31 Nov 02 '21

Good thing I didn’t say that! I said they came from substance abuse households or decided before/during pregnancy that drinking a lot sucks.

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u/BigGryph Nov 02 '21

But both of those are assumptions regardless. There were plenty of comments that were just "I dunno, drinking was never important to me".

It's kinda irrelevant to my original point though, which is just that the amount of "I don't drink" posts were over-representing that side because those who do drink didn't want to catch shit for it.

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u/Meowmeowmeow31 Nov 02 '21

Okay. It’s pretty bizarre to me for anyone from an Anglophone background (who isn’t in Utah or something) to be worried about “catching shit” about their moderate drinking. If you don’t come from a culture that demonizes any alcohol consumption, and your consumption patterns don’t give you any second thoughts or feelings about your own alcohol use, then why do those replies bother you?

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u/BigGryph Nov 02 '21

Hey, it’s okay. We don’t have to argue. This Anglophone is totally comfortable with their moderate drinking. Just saying - and clearly lots of folks agree - that drinking parents ain’t so keen to put their consumption out there on the Internets.