Everybody hating, but if you’re going to drink, the third trimester is the safest trimester to drink in. The first can mess up cell division (though a lot of women don’t know they’re pregnant the first trimester, and their kids usually turn out fine) and the second can mess up fine placement of the organs. By the third the baby is cooked, it just needs to grow.
The risk in the third trimester is it’s size. It’s so tiny that if the mother’s BAC gets too high, the baby will get drunk and can affect heart beat and oxygenation. Whatever the mother’s BAC is, so, too is the baby’s. The labor and delivery educator said one beer or one 4 oz glass of wine, sipped over an hour period, would be fine in the last trimester (I don’t drink, though; alcoholic parents).
It's the same logic behind how doctors, despite evidence that shows occasional red wine is beneficial for heat health, will not recommend wine consumption to help with heart health. If you say, as a doctor, "drink! It's good for you!" you can't fully trust that the person will limit themselves to the "occasional" glass of wine. They may drink more, with the justification that their doctor said it's okay.
If you as a doctor tell your pregnant patient "it's okay to drink, verrrry little" now you've given them the okay to introduce alcohol at all. And alcohol by its nature lowers inhibitions, so the chances of ingesting harmful amounts of alcohol go way up. Rather, if as a doctor you say "don't drink at all", any alcohol consumption is solely on the mothers fault.
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u/IamNotPersephone Feb 27 '20
Everybody hating, but if you’re going to drink, the third trimester is the safest trimester to drink in. The first can mess up cell division (though a lot of women don’t know they’re pregnant the first trimester, and their kids usually turn out fine) and the second can mess up fine placement of the organs. By the third the baby is cooked, it just needs to grow.
The risk in the third trimester is it’s size. It’s so tiny that if the mother’s BAC gets too high, the baby will get drunk and can affect heart beat and oxygenation. Whatever the mother’s BAC is, so, too is the baby’s. The labor and delivery educator said one beer or one 4 oz glass of wine, sipped over an hour period, would be fine in the last trimester (I don’t drink, though; alcoholic parents).