Wine-Thirty

Is it wine-thirty, yet?  This is a question I ask myself a couple of times a week.  When I’m having a bad day, when I’m meeting friends for happy hour, or when I have spent a long holiday with family.  Now before you judge me as an alcoholic, let me say that I’m not talking about binge drinking here.  I’m talking about a glass or two when cooking or three with friends.  Not to say that I’m not against binge drinking but it does have its time and place and that is mostly at special events.  Unless of course, it was a really, really bad day.

I know that wine, cabernet specifically, is going to be the hardest thing for me to give up while pregnant.  I can go without caffeine, I already don’t like seafood, and I only get hungry for bologna once every couple of years (let’s just hope that when I’m pregnant is an off year!).  But to give up wine I know will be torture.  I am an advertiser's dream.  I see characters on my favorite sitcom eating pizza; guess what I’m having for dinner?  I see a smiling woman in an ad enjoying fat free yogurt; I buy a case of it at the store that week.  I’m watching a couple have dinner in a romantic comedy with big, round, glorious glasses of red wine on the table; I’m at the liquor store buying cabernet.  In my sweats.  On a Tuesday.  (Yes, I’m classy like that.)

Now I know that I can have the occasional glass of wine when I’m pregnant and it won’t hurt the baby.  People drank for centuries while pregnant and somehow our race survived.  But what if I can’t stop at the occasional glass?  What if I don’t want to?  I wish I was one of those people who didn’t like to drink.  Who was high on life all the time.  But I’m not.  I think that drinking makes all things in life, the ups and the downs, better.  There is a reason that it is involved in almost all momentous occasions and celebrations in life including weddings and funerals.  And I know that nine months isn’t an eternity (let’s not worry about breast feeding for right now, okay?) but is it bad that I’m trying to plan when I get pregnant based on how many weddings I have to go to that year?

Comments

[Anne]

If at all possible, I would try to avoid being pregnant over Christmas. I love Christmas, but it was not nearly as magical without the usual boozy haze that I have come to love so much!

[Jenn]

Not bad to plan around events!!! And it DOES suck not drinking for 9 months, but when you are ready, you will make it work!