Alcohol during pregnancy: how dangerous is alcohol in the early stages, what to do if the pregnant woman cannot stop drinking alcohol?

Alcohol during pregnancy - why is it harmful, and most importantly, what to do if the pregnant woman drinks alcohol? Mechanisms, physiology, someone else's experience, and methods of getting rid of alcohol dependence.

In this article, we will try not to intimidate expectant mothers, terrible consequences from drinking alcohol, because this information is on the network. At the same time, we will not hush up the harm of alcohol during pregnancy. Often you can hear the opinion that you are either on the side of a sober lifestyle, or you have bad habits, and the third is not given. But we will still try to bring these two opposing opinions to the common denominator.

Alcohol during pregnancy in the early stages

Alcohol during pregnancy in the early stages can cause pathology in a child. A pregnant woman can find such information on the Internet and other sources of information. This will be confirmed by gynecologists. But, the main thing is what a pregnant woman needs to remember is alcohol in the early stages can harm a may not harm.

Doctors, of course, will say that due to the fact that the woman did not know that she was pregnant and drank alcohol in the early stages, pregnancy may be aboard. But they will keep silent that the calm expectation of the baby, the absence of any stress for the future mother is very important. Constant anxiety can be destructive for both a woman and her child. To minimize the feeling of anxiety, a pregnant woman can go through an ultrasound which will confirm that the child does not have a serious pathology.

• Alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy is definitely harmful. It penetrates through the placental barrier, can harm the fetus, and damages the placenta itself, which should ensure the development of the baby for nine months before his birth.
• But if the expectant mother drank alcohol during pregnancy only at an early date, this cannot cause any distant consequences, For example, the fact that the child will be worse studying at school or, for example, he will have frequent colds.
• The fact is that at a period of up to 8-9 weeks, only the laying of the main systems of the body occurs. And if something goes wrong at this stage, then these violations are so serious that they are generally incompatible with the further development of the fetus and pregnancy. It is believed that at this time pregnancy is simply or is or not. Therefore, if you consumed alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy, you are still pregnant, and does not show threats to the abruption of ultrasound, then you are lucky and everything is in order.

- What to do to avoid the harm of alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy?

- Only lead a healthy lifestyle constantly.

There is no safe dose of alcohol, Because it all depends on how a specific organism reacts to it. At the same time, any sane person will say that if you drank 50 milliliters of wine once in six months, and you have normal health, then this is unlikely to harm you. And the use of alcoholic beverages every day or every week is definitely harmful. Therefore, try to exclude alcohol from your life to the maximum.

Alcohol during pregnancy: What are the doctors silent about?

If you drank alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy and you can refuse it, then do it without hesitation, Alcohol is very harmful. If you consumed alcohol during pregnancy, you tried to stop doing this, and you did not succeed, then you started to develop dependence. If you clearly understand what are dependent and do not know what to do with it, then the next part of this article is for you.

Perhaps you are familiar with feelings when:

• It annoys you when a doctor in a white coat appears on the TV screen, and begins a long lecture on the dangers of alcohol during pregnancy, and not only during pregnancy. At the same time, he talks a lot and colorfully about the negative effects of alcohol on health and does not mean anything about what to do with the dependence itself. And in general, what is this addiction? Similar speeches can annoy so much that I want to throw a TV out into the window.
• They scare you ardent supporters of healthy lifestyle, Seeing you on the street, with an alcoholic drink or cigarette, they literally attack you. They shout, and shaking their eyes. At times, you feel like a frightened creature, and are afraid that some kind of “teetotaler” may again attack you. It is worth it here that we are not just about people who are against alcohol, namely about ardentsupporters of a healthy lifestyle.
• Government and municipal alcoholic companies aimed at ensuring that women stop drinking alcohol during pregnancy, seem too naive to you. It is, for example, about advertising shields and posters that speak of the dangers of alcohol.

Your anger and failure in all of these cases are fair. Below we will try to explain why. If you yourself are an ardent supporter of a healthy lifestyle, and fiercely hate drinking, especially women who drink alcohol during pregnancy, then this material may be interesting to you.

The human body has an organism in which the soul and body are connected - this hypothalamus. The hypothalamus produces hormones, which, in turn, force other most important hormones, pituitary gland, and then thyroid gland to synthesize. Thus, the hypothalamus and pituitary gland literally manage the rate of metabolic processes and means well -being.

Why is this important for a woman who drank alcohol during pregnancy? The fact is that the production of hormones of the pituitary gland suppresses cortisol - Hormone stress. Thus, stress and negative emotions affect a person at a physiological level.

In girls drinking alcohol during pregnancy, with a hormonal and emotional background, even more complicated. During pregnancy, the hormone level increases prolactin, Which is considered a hormone of love for others, and tranquility. But at the same time the level thyreotropic hormone in pregnant women should decline. During pregnancy, alcohol creates “emotional swing” does not give a woman who consumes alcohol during pregnancy to get a stable emotional background.

Alcohol during pregnancy and "level of happiness"

Interestingly, studies in private laboratories already allow you to measure the “level of happiness”. For this, an analysis is prescribed for the level of TSH or thyroidropic hormone. This analysis can be prescribed by an endocrinologist and a psychoanalyst. The fact is that the low level of TSH may indicate:

• About physiological problems with the thyroid gland. By the way, in people with thyroid diseases, depression often develops, as a result of their physiological disease.

But at the same time, the production of thyroidropic hormone falls in those who:

• It eats badly and is malnourished.
• The very feeling of hunger can reduce the level of TSH, including a woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy, and experiences “hunger” relative to alcohol.
• People experience stress. Stress from alcohol cancellation syndrome.
• People with psychological problems.

Symptoms of low -level TSH are considered:a set of body weight, indifference to life, drowsiness, can become brittle nails and hair.

Signs of high TSH levels:anxiety and fussiness, tachycardia (increase in the number of heart contractions). Bad sleep and irritability. Swelling of the feet. Sometimes intolerance to heat, chills and sweating.

For pregnant women, many of these problems are typical. And for a woman consuming alcohol during pregnancy - they are especially typical.

If you consumed alcohol during pregnancy, and because of cancellation syndrome Feel alarm, depressed mood, irritability and other symptoms listed above, do not worry. These are not your individual characteristics, but a logical physiological process. This would happen to any person who would drink alcohol.

Simultaneously with what happier A person who decided to abandon bad habits, the easier he tolerates the abolition syndrome. And this is also a completely physiological phenomenon.

During pregnancy, pronounced edema, and followed by tachycardia and an increase in blood pressure are dangerous. If, after the first two listed symptoms, protein in the urine also appears, then we are talking about preeclampsia - a very serious problem that is possible only in pregnant women.

One of the main thoughts in the books of Alena Kara "Do not smoke, do not drink alcohol - and be happy", and it is quite justified from a scientific point of view. Many people consider Alena Kara to work some magic books, which for some reason should help quit drinking and smoking. They say that they will help and abandon alcohol during pregnancy. But, as we wrote above, dependence has completely understandable physiological mechanisms. Alain Kar and described them with an understandable language.

Some other modern authors who write poetry and prose have similar thoughts. For example, in these slightly naive, but sincere poem from Valery Yakovenko.

What will happen if you stop drinking alcohol during pregnancy?

Many obstetrician-gynecologists say that alcohol during pregnancy needs to be urgently stopped drinking, and that’s all. Because it is very harmful to the future baby, sometimes it jeopar of pregnancy itself. All this is absolutely correct, but there is some understatement.

• If the expectant mother drank alcohol in the early stages of pregnancy, and she has no pronounced dependence, then the recommendation “just stop drinking” for her is correct.
• But sometimes a woman has dependence on alcohol or nicotine And, stopping using them, she feels the abolition syndrome. And then you can and should fight some of its manifestations.

  Sometimes the desire to drink and smoke leads to quite real pain in the digestive tract. The body perceives “narcotic hunger”, as ordinary, and the desire to use alcohol leads to the fact that a large amount of acid that corrodes its walls is thrown into the stomach.

If you drank alcohol during pregnancy and after that you feel pain in the stomach, then you need to consult a doctor. There are drugs that take these unpleasant symptoms very effectively. But some of them are dangerous for pregnant women.

• For example, Almagel During pregnancy, it is categorically not recommended. It contains aluminum in high concentration, which penetrates through the placental barrier, and can harm the baby.
• But Renny (the drug relieves heartburn and pain in the stomach), gynecologists often advise pregnant women. However, it all depends on the individual characteristics and gestational age, so be sure to consult your doctor.
• Plant drugs that relieve stress are also sometimes prescribed for pregnant women. First of all, we are talking about valerian extract and drugs based on it. These include, for example, Sedafiton, which includes: Valerian, motherwort, hawthorn. To choose the right drug reducing stress, consult a doctor.
• Preparations for people with cardiological problems. You may ask, where is alcohol during pregnancy and how can they help? You will be surprised, but a large number of drugs for the cardiovascular system are actually drugs that relieve stress.

A striking example Valocordin, which is categorically impossible for pregnant women, Because he is poisonous. That is, this medicine “from the heart” actually acts due to the fact that it is poisonous, and when the brain is poisoned, negative emotions subside, and the heart rhythm and pressure are restored. The active substance of Valocordin is phenobarbital.

• There are much more gentle cardiological drugs that can be taken by those who drank alcohol during pregnancy. To find out if any of them are suitable for you, consult a doctor.

Alcohol during pregnancy - a psychological state in the refusal of alcohol

"I have a feeling that my brain is deceiving itself", - a phrase that can sometimes be heard from those who decided to tie with bad habits. Girls who drank alcohol during pregnancy, unfortunately, are no exception. Such a statement is erroneous, and a person who thinks so does not realize that this is not his own brain that deceives it, but a consequence of the intake of narcotic substances.

It is very important to be aware of this. After all, if, a person does not understand this, then he may that he has a split personality, that he has schizophrenia. And that he will drink better than it will be a crazy schizophrenic.

In fact, all this is not so, and your sad or frightening thoughts The result of the effects of chemicals on your nervous system.

Question Tatyana Bula Participant in the project "Boys":

- How do you feel after you stopped using drugs?

- How, how, I want to drown. Then I have a very good mood and I fly in the clouds, then I want to drown in the pond.

If I do not drink, then my life end. It will turn into endless flour. Without beer and wine, I will never have any joy again.

These are thoughts that often visit those who consumed alcohol during pregnancy, and decided to stop drinking. It is important to understand that such thoughts, in fact, are not yours. They are associated with the fact that you consumed alcohol. And their influence will weaken if you just realize it. After a short time, they will completely come to naught.

In books on narcology, one can find allegations that people who had a binge, after him they were prone to thoughts about suicide. And it happens that they embody thoughts in life. This is scary, but this is another argument that confirms that the depressed mood in the refusal of alcohol is not your individual peculiarity, but the influence of alcohol itself. And yes, alcohol during pregnancy is more often drunk by those girls who are prone to depression.

Alcohol during pregnancy - what will happen if you stop drinking and smoking?

Girls who drink alcohol during pregnancy often smoke. It is known that nicotine, replaces the neurotransmitter natural for our body acetylcholine. Acetylcholine is responsible for the transfer of any nerve impulses. For example, it is needed so that the brain can transmit signals to the muscles. And also participates in thought processes. When a person quit smoking, his body remains without nicotine for a short time, and without acetylcholine in sufficient quantities.

This can manifest itself in some inhibitory and slowness. You can feel like a more stupid person than before. Unpleasant sensations in the muscles may also occur, for example, the jaws can reduce. Problems with the gastrointestinal tract, which are possible when the use of alcohol is stopped, often arise in case of abandonment of cigarettes.

Do not panic, this is not cigarettes made you smarter. On the contrary, your current state is due to what you smoked before. Acetylcholine balance will recover, and you will feel better after 4-5 days.

Stereotypes about female drunkenness and alcohol during pregnancy

Phrase "Female alcoholism is not treated" It has no constructive basis. The body of a woman who drinks alcohol during pregnancy is no different from the male, in terms of some kind of physiology that may prevent you from quitting drinking. This statement has a destructive influence simply because some women, having believed in this, may despair. Do not do this.

Where did the common phrase come from "Female alcoholism is not treated"? This is probably due to the fact that women who are in an alcoholic trap are more likely to experience a feeling of shame than men. They are shy about their condition, rarely ask someone for help, but it happens that they drink alone, embarrassed and hiding from prying eyes.

The girls who drink alcohol during pregnancy apply to the negative effects of stigma, or in other words of the stereotype.

Our society at first glance is very humane. But so far, there are categories of citizens who are very suffering from stigmatization. These are people with mental illness, drug addicts, former prisoners. Our society is initially biased in relation to them. Probably this can also include women drinking alcohol during pregnancy.

What can you try to do this?

• People, Which can afford to give a pregnant woman for drinking alcohol or smoked, remember that they will not help her in any way. And only exacerbate the problem.
• Woman, who drank alcohol during pregnancy, try to understand that this was harmful not only to the child and herself, but also to others who can be afraid of her act.

As for the ardent fighters for sobriety, which are constantly scandalous and poured with mud smoking and drinking, they themselves have no idea what to do, faced with these problems. And often life controls in such a way that problems with alcohol and drugs appear in their life.

• The condemnation of a woman who consumes alcohol, as well as other people with alcohol dependence, is enshrined in legislation. In Russia, there are more than 160 legislative acts that limit the rights of persons who use narcotic substances and alcohol.
• At the same time, the state assistance program for such patients is very poorly financed.
• Charity organizations also say that they are reluctant to rehabilitate money for the rehabilitation of drug addicts and alcoholics.

As a result, the position of a woman drinking alcohol during pregnancy may seem deplorable.

But, not everything is so bad and a woman who consumes alcohol during pregnancy can find help:

• In private psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts.
• People who used alcohol used to be useful, and then abandoned this habit.
• Help can be obtained in groups of anonymous alcoholics, which also exist in Vaiber.

Some psychologists say that people with the dependence between the “personality” and “shadow” are always abyss. And this abyss needs to be reduced

Alcohol during pregnancy and religion

Could a woman drinking alcohol during pregnancy religion help? On the one hand, there are sectarian organizations that turn dependence on alcohol dependence on religion. On the other hand, there is a positive concept of God and His will when getting rid of addiction. For example, the program has 12 steps popular in the USA. There, God is understood to mean everything bright and good that you believe in.

The line between religion and the sectarian course is subtle:

A sect, in order to “heal” a woman drinking alcohol during pregnancy, will intimidate her. Such pseudo -takerian organizations bring a person to exhaustion in all possible ways: many hours of “sermons”, the lack of the opportunity to eat and sleep. Loud music, screams and psychological pressure. They can impose the need to work before exhaustion. As a result, a person is brought to a state in which he does not want anything at all. In this state, he is easier to give in to suggestions, and can begin to believe in the “Prophet”, “God”, “Light” or anything else that is imposed on him.

There are organizations, deal with alcohol problems that also mention God, but at the same time do not show any violence.

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