![]() ![]() ![]() Guidelines around drinking during pregnancy exist because alcohol readily passes through the placenta. Drinking while pregnant: what's the deal? While experts now agree that regular drinking during pregnancy is harmful, advice around the occasional drink is conflicting, and confusing. Your elderly relatives can probably recall a time when drinking alcohol in pregnancy was not only accepted, but recommended, thanks in part to a belief that Guinness is high in iron (spoiler: it isn’t). Drinking while pregnant is, for sure, one of the top 10 issues that people from various walks of your life feel surprisingly qualified to comment on. And never are you subjected to more opinions-masquerading-as-facts than when you’re having a baby. ‘Oh, go on, one can’t hurt.’ As unsolicited health advice goes, this is one to file alongside ‘you can’t get pregnant if he pulls out’ in the folder entitled ‘no PhD, no opinion’. Is one glass of wine, now and then okay–or is it better to have a total 'no-go' policy? To answer your question, WH asked registered dietitian and founder of Tilt Nutrition, Laura Tilt, for the expert view. Drinking while pregnant: a phrase sure to result in a whole lot of emotions rising to the fore.
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