While you may have heard that an occasional glass of wine is okay, the truth is that there's no known safe amount of alcohol during pregnancy.
There are a large number of women who drink during pregnancy, despite medical advice to stop drinking alcohol whilst pregnant. According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is no safe amount of alcohol to consume whilst pregnant, as alcohol exposure causes physical dama...
international team of researchers is reporting that pregnant women who drink alcohol during the first trimester of pregnancy and possibly beyond aren't putting their babies at risk for premature birth or low birth weight, or themselves at risk for high blood pressure complications during pregnancy. ...
“The problem with drinking alcohol during your pregnancy is that there is no amount that has been proven to be safe,” says Jacques Moritz, MD, director of gynecology at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York. David Garry, DO, associate professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at...
Drinking heavily, and often, exposes the baby to levels of alcohol that may put its development at risk. It’s well established that children born to mothers who drank heavily during pregnancy may have irreversible physical, behavioural and mental problems that can last a lifetime(1-3). These...
It also depends on the mother's general health, nutrition, her body's ability to metabolize the alcohol - that is why most responsible doctors advocate for abstinence. Some people can drink during pregnancy without deleterious effects, but who's going to risk finding out if they are o...
Drinking a little alcohol during pregnancy is just fine for most women, found a new study. "Heavy drinking has been (31) for a long time with difficulties for mothers and the children born to them," said lead researcher Yvonne Kelly. " However, there hasn’t been a (32) research to ...
Pregnant women are strongly urged not to drink alcohol during pregnancy. Drinking alcohol while pregnant has been shown to cause harm to a baby as it develops
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, premature birth, and low birth weight. But there are conflicting reports about how much alcohol, if any, it is safe for a pregnant woman to drink. New research publish
The amount of alcohol drunk varied across the three studies. Between 15% and 70% of the women said that they had drunk 1-2 units a week during the first three months (trimester) of their pregnancy. But the number of reported units dropped substantially in all countries between the first ...