Alcohol: yet another reason I love my birth control.

I’m going to say something that will send some mommies over the edge.

The pregnant-women-cannot-ever-EVER-drink mindset is so ingrained that I thought my sister-in-law and I were going to be assaulted when I let her share my beer. She was 8 and a half months pregnant and we figured the baby was as good as hecould get. The dirty looks and shocked reactions on a Saturday at lunch in a…

What the fuck. My rheumatologist didn’t want to prescribe me for the most effective drug from my condition because I’m of child-bearing age. He said this even after I told him that I’m on birth control and don’t plan to ever have kids. I wanted to punch him in the dick.

I don’t think having a few drinks during the early, undetectable stages of an unplanned pregnancy is going to affect my ability to get an abortion, so I’m gonna keep on drinking as much as I want.

This annoys me. One gynecologist I went to told me that I should be taking prenatal vitamins since I am of child bearing age and could potentially get pregnant. Lol. Nope. I make gynecologist visits to keep from getting pregnant thanks. Give me my birth control and leave me alone. Thanks.

I mean, what if I’m drinking because I’m not getting laid? WHAT THEN, CDC? You monsters.

Nevermind the fact that some of us sexually active ladies of childbearing age are in no way getting pregnant since our partners don’t have penises.

I don’t disagree that pregnant women shouldn’t drink heavily but to advise all women to stop drinking unless they are on birth control....just in case? Seems a little intense. Sorta related, I thought I would be one of those chill pregnant women who would have a glass of red wine here and there but my body hates the…

Here is what the CDC should have said:

Does the CDC even know how people get pregnant?!?

Also: my son was conceived amid the height of holiday party season. I drank a lot during his first month of nascence. When I found out I was pregnant I called my doctor and started sobbing and she was like “This is literally the most common response I get from pregnant women after the initial surprise or happiness has…

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This is completely fucking ridiculous. Everyone always says, “There’s no known safe quantity of alcohol to drink during a pregnancy,” and that’s true because no pregnant woman wants to volunteer for a study to find out what the safe quantity is. Anecdotally, pregnant women drink alcohol all the time and have perfectly…

Because, once again, we are incubators first, and sentient beings second.

What I want to know is the actual prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome in the US? All these warnings neglect to say how many children really are born with FAS every year. It seems that this is just another way to try to control women. I first read this on USA Today after someone shared it on facebook. Every single…

Excellent tag, but follow up question—if already pregnant, that is a form of birth control, right? As in, will not concieve babby in near future. So....

This is kind of good advice, but I just don’t see many people following it.

Puhleeze. #Drink til it’s pink