The New York Times has an article today on drinking alcohol and pregnancy: The Weighty Responsibility of Drinking for Two. They focused on a couple of themes. One, how there are no studies about moderate drinking and pregnancy. All the studies are about five drinks a day or no alcohol. Two, how society tries to regulate pregnant women drinking. We are all uncomfortable with pregnant women drinking. (I have to admit to some of this myself. Before I got pregnant, I saw a pregnant women at a sushi restaurant and I wondered what she was doing there. Now I know. She was probably eating sushi!)
I only had a problem once with someone trying to tell me what I should do when I was pregnant. (Or should I say tell me what I shouldn’t do. Don’t drink, don’t lift that, don’t stand there, sit down, etc.) When I was six months pregnant we went to a really nice restaurant for my birthday. I decided to get a glass of wine with my dinner to celebrate. So we ordered two glasses of wine – one for him and one for me. When the waiter brought them out, he did a double take, sat them down on an empty table and then came over with one glass and put it in front of Frank. When Frank told him we’d ordered two glasses, he looked at me and said, "Oh, I thought you weren’t drinking."