Help me. I drank a lot during my first trimester!

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

You're really defensive. I take it that you drank a lot during pregnancy. Poor kid.

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Its obviously undetectable until birth unless major issues are present.

It often takes far longer than birth to detect problems that result from use of alcohol when pregnant. Often problems aren't detected until mid to late ES.

Right, but at that point, it is difficult to pin the cause down, or to even know if they are alchohol related. A huge amount of kids have learning issues and social issues without having any alcohol exposure.

In reality, how often is the cause of those social and learning issues actually explored? When a child has attention problems or is impulsive or has judgment issues. When a child struggles with math. When a child has sensory problems. When height and/or weight are below the tenth percentile. How often does a doctor ask "well did you drink during your pregnancy and how much?" I doubt if that question is asked very often at all. By that point, the damage is done and knowing the cause doesn't really help with dealing with the problems.

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

Baby and mom start exchanging nutrients by day 21 of the pregnancy. OP has been drinking for a full 8 weeks. It's very glib to tell her "It's fine, you've barely had an exposure" when she has had a good 5 weeks of exposure.

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Its obviously undetectable until birth unless major issues are present.

It often takes far longer than birth to detect problems that result from use of alcohol when pregnant. Often problems aren't detected until mid to late ES.

Right, but at that point, it is difficult to pin the cause down, or to even know if they are alchohol related. A huge amount of kids have learning issues and social issues without having any alcohol exposure.

In reality, how often is the cause of those social and learning issues actually explored? When a child has attention problems or is impulsive or has judgment issues. When a child struggles with math. When a child has sensory problems. When height and/or weight are below the tenth percentile. How often does a doctor ask "well did you drink during your pregnancy and how much?" I doubt if that question is asked very often at all. By that point, the damage is done and knowing the cause doesn't really help with dealing with the problems.

Many, many studies have compared rates of LDs in FAS kids with rates of LDs in kids who are not FAS.

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

You're really defensive. I take it that you drank a lot during pregnancy. Poor kid.

Wrong. I didn't drink alcohol when I was pregnant. But biology is biology....that doesn't mean women should feel free to binge drink in early pregnancy because that does impact their overall health. And anything that impacts their health effects the baby but I don't know that FAS is a concern very early on in pregnancy. I'm not a doctor, though. So if you've heard differently please tell...

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Its obviously undetectable until birth unless major issues are present.

It often takes far longer than birth to detect problems that result from use of alcohol when pregnant. Often problems aren't detected until mid to late ES.

Right, but at that point, it is difficult to pin the cause down, or to even know if they are alchohol related. A huge amount of kids have learning issues and social issues without having any alcohol exposure.

In reality, how often is the cause of those social and learning issues actually explored? When a child has attention problems or is impulsive or has judgment issues. When a child struggles with math. When a child has sensory problems. When height and/or weight are below the tenth percentile. How often does a doctor ask "well did you drink during your pregnancy and how much?" I doubt if that question is asked very often at all. By that point, the damage is done and knowing the cause doesn't really help with dealing with the problems.

You are trying to make the OP feel bad based on pure speculation. I have a SN kid and know many, many parents who are desperately searching for answers for why their kids are the way they are. The behavioral problems and issues you describe occur in children whose parents don't drink at all, like my Mormon and Muslim friends, and of course we all know many, many "normal" kids whose mothers drank in moderation throughout pregnancy. Think "the entire continent of Europe," for example. How does that factor in?

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

You're really defensive. I take it that you drank a lot during pregnancy. Poor kid.

Wrong. I didn't drink alcohol when I was pregnant. But biology is biology....that doesn't mean women should feel free to binge drink in early pregnancy because that does impact their overall health. And anything that impacts their health effects the baby but I don't know that FAS is a concern very early on in pregnancy. I'm not a doctor, though. So if you've heard differently please tell...

Not one person has suggested that women should feel free to binge drink during early pregnancy. Nor did any women posting here say that they knowingly binge drank while they were pregnant. What planet are you living on?

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

Baby and mom start exchanging nutrients by day 21 of the pregnancy. OP has been drinking for a full 8 weeks. It's very glib to tell her "It's fine, you've barely had an exposure" when she has had a good 5 weeks of exposure.

Is that 7 days after conception or 21 days after conception?

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I have a friend this happened to, and everything was fine.

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I hope this link helps. Best luck!

http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/study-no-connection-between-drinking-alcohol-early-in-pregnancy-and-birth-problems-201309106667

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Anonymous wrote:It is my understanding: Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9. So you are probably o.k. Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely. Congratulations!

Alcohol crosses over the placenta. Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems. The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby. Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor.

Well, yes. And the placenta isn't formed right away, blood supply is not shared early in pregnancy so...what is your point?

I do agree that the Op should mention all of this to her doctor but I also think that the odds are good that her baby is fine.

You're really defensive. I take it that you drank a lot during pregnancy. Poor kid.

Wrong. I didn't drink alcohol when I was pregnant. But biology is biology....that doesn't mean women should feel free to binge drink in early pregnancy because that does impact their overall health. And anything that impacts their health effects the baby but I don't know that FAS is a concern very early on in pregnancy. I'm not a doctor, though. So if you've heard differently please tell...

Not one person has suggested that women should feel free to binge drink during early pregnancy. Nor did any women posting here say that they knowingly binge drank while they were pregnant. What planet are you living on?

Ah, sometimes I wonder which planet I'm on, I really do, lol.

We were talking about FAS....and whether or not drinking (even large amounts) of alcohol very early in pregnancy (before a woman skips her period or very shortly afterwards) could cause FAS. I think *very* early on FAS is unlikely because the mom/baby aren't sharing a blood supply, but that does not mean it is "o.k." to drink large quantities during early pregnancy.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear lord, you drink 3 to 6 glasses of vodka every day? Lady, you are an alcoholic. I hope and pray you have not done irreparable damage yo your baby and you alcoholism doesn't ruin the child's life after it is born. You are truly disgusting.

Go back and read her post again. 3-6 drinks (in small glasses with ice) twice a week, NOT every day.

Is that on the high side? Sure, OP acknowledges it is. But we're also coming out of the holiday season, when many people drink more than they do the rest of the year.

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Anonymous wrote:I did, too, and my baby was early for unrelated reasons, and has delays. Of course, I always freak out about FASD. I found out at about 4 weeks in. I have researched it a lot, and while it is very unlikely your child would actually have FAS -- that is pretty recognizable at birth and the diagnosis is pretty strict, requires small percentile, small head, etc. -- FASD is blurry. There are so many kids with ADHD that it is impossible to pull out the case in most cases.

One issue that does bother me is the whole "nature's way of protecting the baby" -- we are animals and its not like we evolved to drink alcohol. At the time this all evolved, there was probably no need to insulate the baby from tertrogens. So there is that.

I did find, OP, that there is a nutritional component to FAS, they think -- most women who are well nourished and hydrated do not seem to be at risk.

A reproductive system that protected the baby from teratogens would always be evolutionarily advantageous, alcohol or no alcohol! There are many teratogens that are not alcohol.

like what?

Like caffeine. And arsenic. And lead. And German measles. And atropine. And... Google "teratogens".

Ok, yes, but these aren't things that prehistoric man would have encountered, right? Amd we haven't evolved much since then because we adapt. So I am not sure there is any evolved protection.

I'm not PP, but those are all naturally occurring substances that prehistoric people totally could've encountered.

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Anonymous wrote:Dear lord, you drink 3 to 6 glasses of vodka every day? Lady, you are an alcoholic. I hope and pray you have not done irreparable damage yo your baby and you alcoholism doesn't ruin the child's life after it is born. You are truly disgusting.

Did I miss something here? doing the math would mean OP drank between 1 and 2 days per week, not everyday.