All Posts Tagged With: "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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10
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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24
May
2008

Couple Hoping To Adopt Approaches Waitress In An Unusual Way

Julie Moore is five months pregnant and she doesn’t wear her wedding ring.
Last Friday night after she was done serving a couple dinner, instead of leaving a tip – they left her an unusual card.
It read: “We wish to adopt a baby. We are caring, happily married, financially secure and a loving couple. We want [...]

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13
May
2008

Morning Sickness Causes Mom To Loose 42lbs During Pregnancy

When I was pregnant, I was lucky to not have any morning sickness at all.
Fiona Shaw wasn’t so lucky. At five weeks pregnant she had morning sickness so bad, she could barely keep half a biscuit down.
By 28 weeks she had plummeted from a size 14, 170lbs to a size six, 128 [...]

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1
May
2008

More Moms Breast Feeding

A newly released US Government report finds that breast-feeding in the US is at its highest mark in at least 20 years with more than three-quarters of new moms nursing their infants.

About 77 percent of new mothers breast-feed, at least briefly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Experts attributed the rise to education campaigns [...]

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28
Apr
2008

Australian Moms To Be Able To Insure Their Unborn Fetus’

If you had the opportunity to insure your unborn fetus would you?
Would you pay a premium to know that if your baby arrives with a congenital defect, your family will receive money, which could help offset medical expenses?
The insurance company ING has devised a baby policy for women aged 16 to 40 which will [...]

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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)!!!
There is some pleasure in [...]

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