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Originally Posted by Vicky.
Considering there is no evidence to say that having one or two drinks a week harms your baby, I think this is a bit harsh.
As I said earlier, some midwives recommend you drink guinness, you are told that a glass or two of wine is fine, just not over 2 units.. and the hospital advised me to have a glass of wine to relax when actually in labor (and on codeine tht THEY gave me)
Personally I would serve (and have served in the past) pregnant women with the odd drink. I have only ever come across one woman who was actually out on the piss when heavily pregnant. She was drunk when she came in, so I refused her on the grounds of being drunk (though in my head it was because she was pregnant AND drunk..) I guess I did judge her..but I see a huge difference between refusing someone who is pregnant as they ARE being stupid, and refusing someone one glass of wine when sober.
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Maybe it is harsh, but it's the way I feel. The woman had a right to put alcohol into her system; the barman had the right to refuse to aid and abet her to do that. With respect, Midwives used to say it was okay to smoke and to take all kinds of non-prescription drugs. It's only a generation or so since Thalidomide... If it was me, I'd prefer not to put any kind of substance into my body while I was pregnant, and that would be my choice. What surprises me most is that this woman, with her massive sense of entitlement, has made a crusade out of this. And we've only heard one side of the story too, which is always a little, erm... embroidered. We have an arse-kissing statement from the bar, blaming the barman and apologsing unreservedly for this incident, but not a word from the barman himself who, using the bar's own policy, reserved his right to refuse.