[Altamira]

"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.

[1john2 3and4]

when women arrived at the hospital in premature labor, they were often handed a vodka and orange juice or given alcohol intravenously.

I often think of things like this when anti-Chiropractic stuff gets spewed.

[Awestruck]

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.

[nothingnew]

And women are reluctant to enter treatment, because they have to put their other children in foster care and they're not sure they will get them back.

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)

[neverdem]

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[knuthom]

If you're diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor can say: "I can send you to a diabetes center with a specialist

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.