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i don't normally like beer/lager (well, apart from shandy) but since pregnant have had real jealous streaks when hubbie has had lagers = have ended up buying non-alcoholic becks/cobra.


Think I got so fed up of drinking soft drinks and so a "savoury" fizzy drink is bliss!

Re Alcohol - My Dad gave Mum a pint of Guiness every day during her pregnancy with me (she was 40 years old at the time too)....it is supposed to be very good for you, or so they believed back in 1968/9....anyway I seem to have survived it unscathed.....

So true about the joy of a savoury drink.


Now, how much iron is really in Guinness? Can I get away with this as a genuine treatment for my anaemia? A daily half (or even 1/4 pint) would I am sure make me a better person / mother / citizen....

My sisters mother in law had a guiness every day for years up to her death at 90+.I had Guiness too in my pregnancy in the 80's plus the oranges (not at the same time!)and I had an abundance of milk.


Edted to say ...it didn't help with my spelling though!

When I have sips of Mr Smiler's beer I just want to down the can/pint!


Alcohol-free Cobra is MINGING! Ta for the tips about the other fake booze that is available, hoping the Becks is better.


M&S do 4-pack bottles of some kind of non-alcoholic soft drink made with hops - the citrus-flavoured one is tasty, and with a wedge of lime in the bottle can (almost) pretend it is Corona!

There's always the utterly rank 'Caliber'. I am going to try these interesting M&S things....


Oh to booze it up again. Did anyone read the article (in some paper about 6 months ago) saying that actually drinking while breastfeeding was potentially more dangerous than while pregnant - something to do with the fact that alcohol is metabolised in the liver and by the time it enters the bloodstream (and therefore can get cross to the placenta) it's not very potent.


Ring a bell? I would love to re-read or get someone else's perspective on it.


The article, more broadly, was about how if you look into it the advice about what you can't do while pregnant (soft cheeses, alcohol, toxoplasmosis) are grossly over-dramatised.

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