Posted on 01/25/2005 4:59:19 PM PST by neverdem
"The symptoms included diminished I.Q., small stature, flat face and drooping eyelids."
So that's what happened to me!
Wine Spectator had an article about drinking wine during pregnancy afew years back, and a study that they cited found that women who drank a glass of wine or two a week during pregnancy actually had easier pregnancies and fewer complications than women who abstained entirely.
Granted, this is correlation and not causation, but it leads one to believe that light alcohol consumption during pregnancy is not the horrible thing that we are being led to believe by the handwringing bedwetters of the world.
I often think of things like this when anti-Chiropractic stuff gets spewed.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a real and serious problem, but it's caused by multiple bottles of vodka, not by a glass of wine.
I had a cousin in law with Down's because his mother had been a lush all during the pregnancy..
It's hardly worth it to risk your baby's health over a drink. If you need one that bad, you have more problems than you know.
Oh. I guess she's talking about "single" drunk moms with "no immediate" family except for her fatherless children. Is that what she means?
FMCDH(BITS)
I agree, but more often than not it's beer and cheap alcohol because it's usually younger and uneducated woman that contribute to the syndrome.
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Beer by itself probably doesn't have enough alcohol. Beer and some kind of cheap grain liquor ... blech!
Good point on the serving size ... I don't drink beer, so I wasn't thinking in those terms.
It's the total amount that counts.
Very true.
Thanks for posting that information.
Interesting comment. I'm married to a Chiropractor and
have been astonished at the anti Chiro venom on FR - one of
my favorite web sites.
What's up with that?
You are in the stone age dear. Down's syndrome is a chromosomal aberration that has absolutely NOTHING to do with alcohol consumption. It's more dependent on simply the age of the mother. the condition of her eggs with age or sometimes just the hand nature deals you.
As far as I know, science has never found a link to pregnant based alcoholic behavior and Downs. S##t happens.
Alcohol abuse is harmful to a fetus but Down's syndrome isn't the outcome.
But after having a headache for 3 months and being told to "take more tylenol" by my internal medicine dr., I found a chiropractor and got better.
My mom remembers driving a friend to a chiropractor for several trips and then arriving one day to find he'd been arrested for practicing. He was later released and resumed his practice.
Amen
But the specialist cannot make the woman compliant with the recommended treatment. My husband sees pregnant diabetics who refuse to take care of themselves properly. They are not just putting themselves at risk, they are putting their babies at risk. Like women who drink, it can be very difficult to get some women to do what is right for the baby.
I am also struck by the venemous name-calling, despite many positive comments to the contrary by various (brave, imo) Freepers who have been greatly helped through Chiropractic. Way too many have been helped for it to be merely some placebo effect.
Ironically, IIRC, Ronaldus Magnus was a staunch supporter of Chiropractic, having worked at the radio station in Davenport, where he famously announced the football game as if he were present, providing sound effects, etc.
Sadly, I think it's agenda driven.....much like the libs in their lust for power....where agenda trumps reality, truth, and that which is good. And you know we get a whole bunch of calling evil "good", and good "evil", from libs. Human nature.
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