[red_squirrel]

Just read this in another online newspaper.

The pictures are pretty startling. I thought it was rather timely given how many women on here think moderate alcohol wont effect their baby.

http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/parenting...a-1226527016561

[duckasorus]

I have shared on facebook.

We had a family member continue to do drugs and drink and now her child has heart problems, born 2 month prem and underweight and is now having eye problems, size of a small one year old at four and is under going other diaganos.

Safest choice is to not drink, if you NEED that drink get some fizzy juice :-)

[Green Door]

That photo is so old and also fake!

[Mozzie1]

I find it very hard to believe that the damage shown is caused by 'moderate amounts of alcohol' - whatever that means (my moderate might be your light drinking).

If moderate alcohol caused that kind of damage, most of my generation would be impaired - our mothers all drank when they were pregnant with us.

And for the record, no, I am not drinking while pregnant.

[suline]

So according to the article, 60% of women drink alcohol while pregnant, but only 2% of babies are born with FAS?

This post has been edited by suline: 30/11/2012, 06:48 PM

[wonder woman]

I find it very hard to believe that the damage shown is caused by 'moderate amounts of alcohol' - whatever that means (my moderate might be your light drinking).

The photo is of the shrunken brain of a six-week old baby whose mother drank heavily during pregnancy.

So according to the article, 60% of women drink alcohol while pregnant, but only 2% of babies are born with FAS?

Australian women, Tasmanian babies

This post has been edited by wonder woman: 30/11/2012, 06:54 PM

[Ruffles]

I have seen FAS, quite a few times. And the mothers did not drink what I would consider to be "moderate".

I did drink when I was pregnant with both of mine. 1/2 a glass of champagne at a wedding. The odd 1/4 wine 3/4 soda when out. Even Lemon/lime/bitters has a fraction of alcohol. That is what I consider "moderate". Less than 1 standard drink a month, even.

So shoot me for being an "educated, middle class, drinking when pregnant" woman. You cannot tell me that I put my children at risk of FAS.

If moderate alcohol caused that kind of damage, most of my generation would be impaired - our mothers all drank when they were pregnant with us.

+1.

The average baby-in-utero is more at risk every time the mother gets into a car than they are from the level of drinking I and my friends indulged in.

[Jemstar]

Whenever this kind of thing comes up I am totally surprised that there are so few children with FAS if small or even moderate amounts of alcohol cause it.

No one's going to dispute that large amounts of alcohol causes harm, but the jury is still out on smaller amounts.

Surely France should be positively overrun?

[purplekitty]

That photo is so old and also fake!

Why is it fake?

I find it very hard to believe that the damage shown is caused by 'moderate amounts of alcohol' - whatever that means (my moderate might be your light drinking).

It says in the article the baby has FASD and the mother was drinking heavily in pregnancy.

[Green Door]

Its fake because its been around for years and years. Google it ,