I drank a lot before i knew i was pregnant

If you consumed alcohol before finding out you were expecting try not to panic. You probably conceived around week 2 or 3 depending on when you ovulated when you had sex and when.

This is why if you had just a few drinks in the first 2-3 weeks before realising you were pregnant.

I drank a lot before i knew i was pregnant. One of the reasons many people try to plan ahead for pregnancy is to try to avoid accidental exposure to things like alcohol in early pregnancy which is most likely to happen before you even take a pregnancy test or discover your missed period. Ultimately the most important thing is that you stop drinking alcohol as soon as you know you are pregnant. Its unlikely the alcohol you drank before knowing you were pregnant has harmed your unborn child.

Before youve missed your period theres little you can do that will hurt or help your pregnancy. Pregnancy is calculated in weeks from the date of the first day of your last menstrual period. You probably conceived around week 2 or 3 depending on when you ovulated when you had sex and when.

The impact of alcohol in early pregnancy. Binge drinking or sustained heavy drinking at any stage of pregnancy are known to have potentially lifelong damaging effects to an unborn baby. Drinking low levels of alcohol in pregnancy 1-2 drinks once or twice a week has not been proven to be harmful to an unborn baby.

This is why if you had just a few drinks in the first 2-3 weeks before realising you were pregnant. So continued drinking through pregnancy can have a negative effect on the baby. The odd drink of wine or lower alcohol beer wont be a worry but continued heavy drinking on a regular basis has been shown to affect a babys brain and physical development.

Alcohol and pregnancy everything you need to know I smoked before I knew I was pregnant. I am hoping to hear from any woman who drank as heavily as I did before she knew she was pregnant and then went on to have the baby. When I was 28 days 4 weeks since my last period I drank two bottles of wine standard 750 ML size in one night.

The next night I had 3 drinks 1 beer 2 glasses of wine and the night after I had 4-5 beers. I drank beers strong black coffee and ate something that I couldnt expect to eat during my vacation. After coming back from vacation I found out Im pregnant.

And at my first appointment about 3 weeks after vacation I was 13wks 2 days. My doctor still said It was fine. Many women did crazy thing before they know theyre pregnant.

I found out I was pregnant at 6 weeks and the two weeks before that I had drank a ridiculous amount. It was my OHs birthday then a camping trip then friends visiting from out of town. There was so much alcohol involved in all of it.

After I found out it was the first thing I asked the doctor. He said most people he meets dont find out theyre pregnant right away and have the same. A Western Australian study found that 59 per cent of women drank alcohol while pregnant including 15 per cent who drank above the recommended guidelines during their first trimester.

However this same study found that 47 per cent of pregnancies are unplanned so it could be that a significant portion of these women exposed their babies to alcohol inadvertently before they knew they were pregnant. Very early in your pregnancy your baby is a bunch of near identical cells. Heavy drinking can kill some of them but since they all do the same thing another cell can just take over.

The risk is that you kill too many of them and the fetus fails to develop in which case youll have a miscarriage very early on much like a regular period. It is unlikely that moderate smoking or drinking during the first month of pregnancy will be harmful. But its very important for a woman to stop smoking or drinking as soon as she knows shes pregnant whether she smokes and drinks moderately or heavily.

Its always best to prepare for the birth of a child before pregnancy. But if preconception planning is not possible a woman still can prepare during pregnancy. A lot of people do a lot of things in their first trimester before knowing they were pregnant and their babies were fine.

And they probably did things a lot worse then dying their hair. And if everything checked out at the doctors your good dont worry. Although having had a couple of drinks before you knew you were pregnant isnt ideal it is somewhat common.

Half the women in the US. I drank a lot one night alot and 3 days later i found out i was a month pregnant. Will my baby be okay.

If you consumed alcohol before finding out you were expecting try not to panic. ACOG reassures parents that serious harm is unlikely if you drank before you knew you were pregnant A babys major organs including the brain dont begin to develop until about the fourth week of pregnancy around the time you would miss your first period. You might want to hold off on that evening cocktail even if youre not sure whether youre pregnant yet.

While we all know that drinking during pregnancy can inflict long-lasting damage on a baby the effect of alcohol on a developing embryo before a woman knows shes pregnant has. That said smoking before you found out you were pregnant doesnt necessarily mean that something will go wrong with your baby or your pregnancy. I drank alot and pretty much everynight until the pregnancy test came back positive.

My midwife said it is very common for people to have dranken alot before knowing they are pregnant half of pregnancies are unplanned and when the child is in the embyonic state there isnt much that alcohol could do to it. Dont worry it is the regular drinking throughout the pregnancy when the brain is developing that is the most harmful. A few drinks in the first few weeks wont have done any damage.

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