Okay learning some of this stuff from medical school and common sense: Is it ok to have a drink while pregnant? Answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO even if you have one drink the entire time you are prenant is very dangerous to the child. However if a woman has a drink the only time it is safe is like within the first week after that it is dangerous to the child's development. As for after birth a glass of wine a day is fine if it is when you are breast feeding a child because by the time you are breast feeding the child again the sugar and alchol has broken down enough to cause no harm to the child, but remember only one glass a wine when breast feeding.
Poll: Drinking while pregnant?
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If you have even 1 drink your baby will die!
Seriously you people are overreacting. something like 90% of australian women drink alcohol. For most people, you don't know that you are pregnant the day it happens. Generally you miss a period, take a test, and then go and see a doctor. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that up to 90% of pregnant women had at least a drink or 2 in the first 4 or 5 weeks of their pregnancy.
See graph below on infant mortality. Safest time ever, and one of the safest places in the world to have a baby in spite of the odd drink.
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_imrt_in&idim=country:AUS&dl=en&hl=en&q=infant+mortality#met=sp_dyn_imrt_in&idim=country:AUS:USA&tdim=true
My wife had a drink or 2 (like most women in the western world) during the pregnancy of both of our kids and they are fine (like most children in the western world).
Relax. 1 glass of wine will not kill your baby.
Seriously you people are overreacting. something like 90% of australian women drink alcohol. For most people, you don't know that you are pregnant the day it happens. Generally you miss a period, take a test, and then go and see a doctor. It is therefore not unreasonable to assume that up to 90% of pregnant women had at least a drink or 2 in the first 4 or 5 weeks of their pregnancy.
See graph below on infant mortality. Safest time ever, and one of the safest places in the world to have a baby in spite of the odd drink.
http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_imrt_in&idim=country:AUS&dl=en&hl=en&q=infant+mortality#met=sp_dyn_imrt_in&idim=country:AUS:USA&tdim=true
My wife had a drink or 2 (like most women in the western world) during the pregnancy of both of our kids and they are fine (like most children in the western world).
Relax. 1 glass of wine will not kill your baby.
The problem is Women can often drink heavily in the time between getting pregnant and realising that they're pregnant. We actually had a tute on this a few weeks ago, I believe the current literature supports a standard drink a day being harmless, but it's advised to cut it out completely for safety's sake.
It's not confirmed or denied how much is ok as of yet, however the effect of consumption are known, and due to the ethical situation it's hard for people to determine in a controlled area how much (or how little) you can drink while PregnantMarter said:
If I was pregnant I think I'd need a drink, or something stronger.. being a bloke. However in all seriousness women certainly should drink whilst pregnant.
If you want to drink at all while pregnant, then have an abortion. I honestly can't see why that would even be an issue, alcohol is a chemical which changes neurological functions of the brain and affects dopamine production as well as glucose levels. In a developing fetus that can cause severe damage, as is shown by fetal alcohol syndrome. Yes those are severe cases, but there's no reason to risk even the slightest damage to your unborn child if you can help it. People would freak out if a pregnant mother said "It would be okay if I just had one cigarette a day". Any harmful chemicals absorbed will transfer to the fetus, and they will be filtered, but it's not a chance I would ever take. But hey, if you want to raise a child with a serious disability, or even risk it and spend the rest of your life wondering if your child would've been smarter had you not taken those drinks then more power to you.
Yes, simply because if I, a male, got pregnant, that would be some sort of abomination, and would need to be killed off with excessive alcohol and other means....but if I was a lady, no, I wouldn't drink.
A glass a week?! Thats grand you should let her have that, seriously dont be so uptight about itStBishop said:
One drink every now and again while pregnant might not cause any harm, but it's an incredibly selfish risk to take. Having FAS will seriously affect a child for the rest of his/her life. Thinking that it's okay to drink when you're putting a child at risk by doing so, even if the risk may be minimal in the case of low-moderate drinking, is a good sign that you're simply not responsible enough to have a child.
Stupid, stupid, stupid!!!!
How any Mother to be cannot give up drinking for a mere 9 months is beyond me, same with smoking.
The child isn't even born yet and you're poisioning it, if you really want a baby that bad you'd do anything in your power to keep it safe while it's in your womb and when it's in the outside world.
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I'm saying this as a Mother to a 21 month old.
How any Mother to be cannot give up drinking for a mere 9 months is beyond me, same with smoking.
The child isn't even born yet and you're poisioning it, if you really want a baby that bad you'd do anything in your power to keep it safe while it's in your womb and when it's in the outside world.
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I'm saying this as a Mother to a 21 month old.