Did you "drink til it was pink"?

[Flair Underwood]

Okay, be honest with me... did you drink alcohol during your two week wait?  

I didn't my first pregnancy, but did this time around.  I had a lovely number of drinks about 10 days before my BFP (it was our anniversary).

[Andrea]

I totally did, the last two cycles including the one with my BFP. I was completely more rigid the 8 cycles before. By the last two I had thrown up my hands in resignation.

[greysonsmom]

This was a surprise and I found out when we got home from a Caribbean vacation. Lots of drinking. Oops.

[frecklesnbrains]

Yup. My birthday was on a Friday 3 days before my BFP. My DH had planned a weekend at a bed & breakfast on Cape Cod and I tested that night before we went and it was a BFN. DH gave me a nice bottle of whiskey as a bday present, which I certainly partook of, and I also had several beers and a margarita over the course of the weekend. I honestly thought I was out for the month. AF was due Tuesday but I tested again Monday morning just to be safe because I had a dentist appointment and was scheduled for X-rays... BFP!

[Flair Underwood]

I was tired of following all the rules and ending up with a "BFN" too, Andrea. ALthough, greysonsmom and frecklesnbrains, it sounds like you guys had a little more fun than my anniversary dinner.

[pbandj714]

Sure did! I'm not a big drinker, but I'd been enjoying the new Leinkugel Harvest Patch Shandy this fall! I had quite a few of those during my TWW.

[titania]

I did! The night before I found out, MH bought a nice bottle of wine that we split. I thought for sure I was out that cycle, so I wasn't even thinking about it.

[soultrane]

I didn't, but it had more to do with lack of time to drink than with us TTC.

[microworm]

I did. I was drinking one beer a day with dinner for awhile and stopped when I got my BFP.

[athn64]

No. But we don't drink, so it wasn't exactly in prep for anything. Especially since it was a bit of a surprise.

[csat]

Yes, I definitely did with both pregnancies. The first pregnancy we were on vacation in Kauai during part of the 2ww. This time around it was my birthday during the 2ww and I had a few celebratory nights with a decent amount of drinks. And otherwise I just drank as I normally would, I didn't think about it at all.

We spent too much time ttc for me to worry too much about what was happening during the 2ww and I absolutely needed to have a 'normal' life during those times.

[ArgyleEnigma]

I'm not a drinker, but I know what you guys mean. For the first six or seven months, I didn't do anything I wouldn't do pregnant during the TWW--all the way down to Advil and painting. It was a rotton way to live, spending half my life abstaining followed by disappointment.

I finally decided I had to live my life or I was going to destroy it, and only cut out things that seemed likely to be acutely dangerous, like rock scrambling.

[jjh1119]

Yup! I am not a big drinker, I'm not even totally a social drinker but I felt compelled to have a drink the last couple times we had gone out to eat. Including a business lunch. Must have been my body saying "now or never for the next 9 months"

[frecklesnbrains]

Nov 30, 2015 12:34:35 GMT -5 ArgyleEnigma said:

I'm not a drinker, but I know what you guys mean. For the first six or seven months, I didn't do anything I wouldn't do pregnant during the TWW--all the way down to Advil and painting. It was a rotton way to live, spending half my life abstaining followed by disappointment.

I finally decided I had to live my life or I was going to destroy it, and only cut out things that seemed likely to be acutely dangerous, like rock scrambling.

If rock scrambling is dangerous then I'm a bad mom-to-be. I'm a big hiker and I've done this at least 4 times since being pregnant. I always keep my center of gravity low though so the worst that could happen is a 3 foot fall onto my nicely cushioned ass. As far as I can tell the only activity I normally do that I'll skip this season is downhill skiing.

But I totally agree with everyone on having to live life during the TWW. To do otherwise would not have been good for my mental health. I never bothered with abstinence, even the first cycle we were TTC. The fact is that there is very little exchange of blood contents between mom & the embryo during the earliest stages of pregnancy.

[txmommy14]

I did...margarita on my birthday two days before BFP.

[ArgyleEnigma]

Nov 30, 2015 13:01:29 GMT -5 frecklesnbrains said:

Nov 30, 2015 12:34:35 GMT -5 ArgyleEnigma said:

I'm not a drinker, but I know what you guys mean. For the first six or seven months, I didn't do anything I wouldn't do pregnant during the TWW--all the way down to Advil and painting. It was a rotton way to live, spending half my life abstaining followed by disappointment.

I finally decided I had to live my life or I was going to destroy it, and only cut out things that seemed likely to be acutely dangerous, like rock scrambling.

If rock scrambling is dangerous then I'm a bad mom-to-be. I'm a big hiker and I've done this at least 4 times since being pregnant. I always keep my center of gravity low though so the worst that could happen is a 3 foot fall onto my nicely cushioned ass. As far as I can tell the only activity I normally do that I'll skip this season is downhill skiing.

But I totally agree with everyone on having to live life during the TWW. To do otherwise would not have been good for my mental health. I never bothered with abstinence, even the first cycle we were TTC. The fact is that there is very little exchange of blood contents between mom & the embryo during the earliest stages of pregnancy.

Haha. In my case, distance from ass to ground is often more like 10-15 feet (in a nicely padded gym).  I am not very good at it. 

[amiet79]

I did. I had 4-5 drinks about a week before my BFP and 2 drinks the night before. This pregnancy was unplanned so I didn't do anything differently. I had taken Advil as well in the TWW.

I also had quite a few drinks for my bachelorette party during the TWW when I was pregnant with DS. I didn't have any when I got pregnant with DD.

[vivela]

Oh yea, quite a bit actually. There were people in town those weeks and I went out a lot. I also had really heavy implantation bleeding that I thought was a period, so I didn't hold back and actually tested quite late because the spotting didn't stop and I wanted to know if it was a chemical. I probably tested almost 2 weeks after I could have gotten a BFP.
They say it doesn't really reach the baby until around 8 weeks, so hopefully I didn't pickle it in sangria.

[Kevinmac]

I don't think I did this time just because there weren't opportunities. I would have had there been a football game to tailgate for.

[manybellsdown]

Yes. I was in the habit of cutting back during the TWW (from a near-daily glass of wine or two--I also found cutting back or abstaining annoying after so many BFNs), but an annual food and wine festival fell at 7dpo ish that month. I didn't hold back.

[lakecountrygal]

Yep, but this was a surprise pregnancy. The red flag for me was a drink the day before my BFP tasting funny and I couldn't finish it.

[bgkc4]

I had a blood orange frozen margharita about 4 hours before my BFP. I was cramping so much in the beginning of this pregnancy that I assumed AF was coming. I prob had wine a bunch of times during the TWW too. On top of that, I took 2 Peptol Bismol tablets, 2 ibuprofen tablets and once used a Rx face cream with Retinol in it (all on separate days) during the TWW (without knowing that these medications were not intended for use during pregnancy). When I went in for my first OB appointment and read the list of medications I could not use, I felt horrible.

[dontstopbelievin]

For the first, no, I had given up alcohol for lent. This time yes. My cycles are unpredictable, so if I wanted to drink at night, I'd just take a test in the morning. I drank the night before my BFP and two nights before my BFP.

I have a friend who had 6, then took a test and it came back positive. Her perfect little boy was born last night, full term and healthy.

[origamimommy]

With this one, yes. Since I was treating my health issues with BCP, our plan was to start trying in June. My clue was that I had horrible heartburn and wanted a chipotle burrito smothered in hot sauce. I took a test that night and got a BFP. Before the BFP I had a glass of wine almost every night.

[bighair12]

I was drinking two to three days before my BFP.

[regal]

Alcohol just didn't sit right with me the week leading up to my BFP.

My first was a surprise though and the night before I tested (only to prove to DH that I wasn't) I got drunk. In the previous week I spent two days a Great Wolf Lodge in the hot tub, got a terrible cold and was drugged up on Advil Cold and Sinus. Good times.

[GOmamab15]

Yes. I don't drink much but I indulged in sangria the weekend before at a block party, and a couple hard root beers the weekend before that.

I've been craving a mocktail of some sort this week. There's a bartender I used to frequent & I might go visit her and have her make me something good sans alcohol.

[sandandsea]

nope, I had a feeling it may have "worked" so I refrained. My last drink was probably the night we conceived....

[packerfan4life]

Absolutely. This was a big surprise and I only tested because I wanted to drink without guilt. Even in the years we were actively trying I drank for all but my treatment cycles

[shan]

No. We were doing fertility treatments and I didn't want to drink during the tww.