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We didn't even think about it. Both of us drank as we normally would. .... Continued doing so until the pregnant stick showed up!

ETA: I should say that I wouldn't let him get drunk when it was my fertile period. Me either. We needed to be aware of what we were trying to do. hehe.

Yeah unless you've been trying for a long time with no success or have some other reason to believe you'll have trouble conceiving I wouldn't worry about this at all.

I read that alcohol can have a negative impact on the quality of sperm and egg. However, I don't know how much it takes to have such an impact and I suspect that the impact is greater in conjunction with other factors. TTC isn't only about the woman, though. It's equally about the sperm. When we were TTC, my DH changed up all kinds of behaviours including vitamins and zinc, not sitting with a laptop on his lap (the heat kills the spermies) and cutting down on alcohol. The month we got lucky, we had both decided not to drink at all. But I don't know how long we would have kept that up.

We both greatly reduced our drinking for the first few months of TTC, but it wasn't working so we both went back to normal life and having a drink or two each night with dinner.

i think alcohol does affect sperm, but if it were me, i wouldn't worry about 1-2 glasses. charlie wouldn't have been conceived were it not for wine.

@mediagirl: Ditto! We both had two drinks tonight. Not going to worry about it till there are two lines on a test. Then I will have plenty of time for no drinks.

I've read a couple books on getting ready to TTC, and the general consensus is that unless he is a heavy drinker (more the 1-2 drinks per day or getting intoxicated) there shouldn't be an effect in sperm quality or production.

We continued to live our lives normally while TTC, we would have the same amount of alcohol as we would any other time & it didn't affect our TTC at all! We were at an all-inclusive resort, so having more alcohol then we normally would, and we still got pregnant!

DH drinks a lot more than the recommended average (6+ a day) and we didn't have any trouble getting pregnant.

@Modern Daisy: “Normal” drinking for us is a cocktail most evenings for my husband (gin martini), and then we split a bottle of wine with dinner. I also had a cocktail most weekends, followed by red wine. We had 2-3 glasses of red wine 99% of evenings and had no trouble conceiving (and we’re 30 and 46, so not youngsters!).

OB just said not to binge drink while TTC, but for my own health, nothing to do with TTC. Her opinion was to drink til it's pink.

We both cut back on our alcohol consumption just in case. But still have a beer or glass of wine (or two) almost every week.