Alcohol and Pregnancy

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May
2009

New Report Finds 1 in 8 women Drink While Pregnant

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report finds that about 1 in 8 U.S. women drank some amount of alcohol during their pregnancy.

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Apr
2009

Woman Thrown Out Of Bar For Drinking While Pregnant

A pregnant woman was refused a drink at a pub and then asked to leave by staff who said they were protecting her unborn child.

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Feb
2009

Group To Develop National Guidelines On How Much Alcohol — if any — Is Safe During Pregnancy

The group representing obstetricians and gynaecologists said Thursday it will develop national guidelines on how much alcohol — if any — is safe for women to consume leading up to and during pregnancy.
“The advice is extremely inconsistent, the advice is sometimes downright wrong and the perception on the part of the public is extremely wide [...]

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Jan
2009

Another Pregnant Woman Caught Driving Drunk

Here’s a good mom-to-be…A heavily pregnant woman has pleaded guilty to drink driving at more than four times the legal limit, not wearing her seat belt and driving unlicensed.
Amber Jade Mills, 23, was stopped last November when police saw her swerving, beeping the horn and parking across two spaces.
When the police pulled her over, [...]

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Dec
2008

Published Reports Inaccurate Concerning Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy

A national alcohol research group is concerned that the media’s misinterpretation of a recent British research study could encourage pregnant women to be more at ease with temperate alcohol consumption – especially during the holiday season.
Some media reports erroneously stated that the study by The University College London researchers revealed that light drinking by [...]

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Jun
2008

Drunk Baby Born ‘15 Times’ Over the Limit

A baby girl, born Monday in Poland, had a blood alcohol level of 0.29 percent, almost 15 times over the country’s adult drunk-driving limit of 0.02 percent, according to a report.
In the U.S., the adult drunk-driving limit is 0.08.
Doctors at a hospital in Otwock, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, called the police after [...]

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29
Jan
2008

Pregnant Woman Charged With Drunk Driving

I hate reading about stuff like this…some people just don’t get it.
A 19-year-old Te Puke woman has been charged with drunken driving, after blowing a reading of 750. That is five times the legal limit for her age, which is 150.
The woman, who is six months pregnant, did not have a licence and was [...]

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Nov
2007

It’s Ok To ‘Booze Binge’ While Pregnant???

When I read this headline, I wondered, “What is this world coming to?”
We have covered this subject extensively so it came as a SHOCK to read the headlines this week stating that pregnant moms could not only drink, while they are pregnant, they could binge drink (5 drinks in one sitting)!!!
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Jul
2007

Baby Born Drunk: Blood Alcohol Six Times Legal Limit to Drive

I am lost for words on what to say about this awful story.
A baby boy in Poland was born drunk.

Doctors decided to check his blood-alcohol level because his mother was drunk when she arrived to give birth.

What they saw frightened them.

A doctor tells the PAP news agency that 12 hours after he was born, the [...]

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May
2007

Little Known About The Risks of Alcohol and Pregnancy

One in three Australian women do not understand how alcohol affects an unborn baby and about the same number say they will drink through their next pregnancy.
Health experts have labelled as “frightening” a survey that clearly shows many women of child-bearing age have no idea that drinking in pregnancy can inflict serious, long-term physical and [...]

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Apr
2007

Child And Adolescent Psychiatrists Raise Awareness Of Fetal Alcohol Effects

In recognition of April, Alcohol Awareness Month, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) has introduced new educational guidelines, in English and Spanish, on the consequences of drinking alcohol during pregnancy. The Facts for Families on Drinking Alcohol in Pregnancy (Fetal Alcohol Effects) outlines symptoms of the disorder and warning signs of alcohol [...]

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Mar
2007

Pregnant Women Told Not To Drink At All

Some believe that one or two drinks while you are pregnant is okay. Some doctors even tell their pregnant patients that they may have an alcoholic beverage if consumed responsibly.

In Britain, women are to be told not to drink alcohol at all during pregnancy in a major shift in Government policy.

Until now, official advice [...]

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