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Alcohol free - what’s actually ok?

Is anyone else feeling really confused about whether you can drink alcohol free drinks or not? I’m really struggling as I’m such a social drinker but don’t want friends to know until our 12 week scan and I’m just over 5 weeks. There doesn’t seem to be a clear yes it’s ok or no it’s not! I’m thinking about getting some non-alcoholic gin for the weekend which has 0.0% on the bottle then in small print ‘Contains no more than 0.015% ABV.’ - should I steer clear or not worry??

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I had alcohol free throughout my last pregnancy and was all fine. Obviously they can’t say how much is safe, and alcohol free doesn’t always mean 0% but I think a lot of the time they put it on there because they can’t completely get rid of all the alcohol so it’s to make people aware. But I think such a small amount would be ok, but just my opinion

They have to say legally 0.5% as they can’t guarantee it’s 0%. I’ve been loving the pear kopparberg, it’s the only thing I’ve tried that tastes the same as the real thing x

Get the gin.

There's more alcohol in a ripe banana than in alcohol free gin. Go for it!

Alcohol free peroni is nice and kopperberg.. don’t get Nosecco it’s rank 🤮🤮

I've been drinking alcohol free ciders throughout 😊 remember it is safe to have even an ocassional proper alcoholic drink (i chose not to and others do which is fine) it's just that there's no real guideline on what would be harmful so small traces are fine as long as you're comfortable with it.

Alcohol free koppaberg has such a small percentage that you're more likely to get pissed with vinegar. 🤣 think about it this way, someone with liver failure would be able to drink alcohol free alcohols with no issues

Ahhh it’s so confusing isn’t it? My midwife said I should not even be having 0.05 but that feels very overly cautious..

@Amy exactly!!

FYI a ripe banana has more alcohol in it than a 0.5% beer- sugars produce alcohol so I wouldn’t worry too much about anything that has a 0.0 at the front of it :)

alcohol free actually has the same amount of ‘alcohol’ in it as orange juice! Totally safe it’s just traces :)

Thanks everyone I was probably overly worrying for no reason I’m not going to do it a lot but we’ve had a dinner party booked in for ages and it will look so weird if I’m not drinking!