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I didn't stop drinking at all. I asked my doctor about this and she said not to stop drinking. When I got pregnant, I knew within a few days anyway and at that point I stopped drinking. As long as you are not a binge drinker, I don't really see a point in stopping beforehand.

My OB said exactly what all previous posters have said – within the first 4 weeks or so, there is no direct blood connection, so whatever food/drink you consume doesn’t affect the implanting embryo one way or the other and that drinking is perfectly safe before you get a BFP. My OB advised me to continue to eat and drink as I normally would (including both wine and hard liquor cocktails) until I got a positive pregnancy test, and then to stop drinking alcohol. Her rational is there is enough to worry about once you are actually pregnant and your behaviors affect the baby, don’t stress yourself out about doing things that don’t physically affect it – and that alcohol leaves your system in less than 24 hours (really, much less than 24 hours) so what you drank last week, or 3 days before you get a BFP is also nothing to worry about.

I still went to happy hours during our active TTC journey. I actuallly had two drinks (more than my usual 1/2!) during a happy hour a week or so before my BFP.

I think you're fine in this NTNT phase and even when you start TTC...

I agree!! I wouldn't give up drinking all together. Maybe not go on a huge bender every night but having a drink or two (or three) is totally fine. I actually went out for new years and got a little inebriated.... Well the BFP came on the 3rd. I could have sworn AF was going to show!

I did cut alcohol out for the first 3 months or so and then I figured screw that and relaxed a little.

My doctor said that I should continue doing everything I normally do until I get the positive test, which included taking prescription meds. I feel like drinking would fit in that same category.

I wouldn't worry about it at all...If you're usually just having one or two drinks, I would "drink til it's pink". If you were going out on like binge drinking benders, my answer might be different, lol. I personally drank small amounts of wine like 2 days before I found out I was pregnant.

I had 6 or 7 drinks between conception and the positive pregnancy test. I had a couple more later in the pregnancy. I have no guilt around it. Like others said, in the first few weeks, it's no big deal. And later on, a drink a month or so is (IMO, not a medical professional) just fine. As long as you don't go crazy, I wouldn't worry about it.

@Modern Daisy: AF is Aunt Flo, AKA your period.

Like PP's said, the embryo doesn't share your blood supply for a few weeks, so what you eat or drink won't matter...unless you're a binge drinker, then I'd advise against it. I'm in the "drink till it's pink" camp: I had two glasses of wine the night before I got my BFP (granted, I was positive I wasn't pregnant that time).

I got pregnant in December so there was a lot of drinking going on because of the holidays. When December and mid-January came and went and I didn't get my period I took a HPT and got my BFP. The first question I asked my doctor when I went to see him was if all my drinking harmed the baby and he said it's fine and that many times there wouldn't be babies if alcohol wasn't involved.