Pregnant women generally have many strange desires. Someone goes at night to smell the rails, someone eats sponges for washing dishes, someone is crazy about the aroma of wet sand. And often I really want to drink. “Today I dreamed that I was drinking cold, white dry wine. Again, ”says my colleague. She is in the fifth month. The experience of abstinence - half a year. Many of the alcohol ban are quietly violated - they stretch a bottle of beer for a week, occasionally they allow themselves a sip of wine. Here, the main thing is not to confess to anyone, otherwise they will enter.
Photo: GettyImagesBut now it’s time to confess.Experts have acknowledged that a small (very small!) amount of alcohol does not harm an unborn baby. Specialists observed 26 women, some of whom occasionally allowed themselves to have a sip of wine, while others strictly adhered to a no-alcohol regime. And they found that alcohol did not provoke any problems with the development of the fetus or complications during pregnancy. Drinking alcohol also did not affect the severity of labor, and the children of both groups of mothers were born completely healthy. And now the main question: how much is a little? Experts say that you can allow yourself a maximum of four units of alcohol per week. A unit is 85 ml of light wine or 0.25 ml of beer. In general, respectable. But there are opponents of this study. Firstly, as they quite reasonably point out, the sample was too small to talk about patterns. There should be more observations. Secondly, there are confirmed studies that prove that those who allow themselves alcohol during pregnancy have children with a lower birth weight. Not always, about 8 percent of cases. Thirdly, children may still have problems with development in the long term - this issue has not yet been properly studied. Therefore, there is only one conclusion: it is better not to. But if it so happened that you took a sip, then you should not nag yourself about it. A sip of wine or beer will not harm the fetus. If it really is a sip.
