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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I did a cursory scan of the literature available on PubMed when I was pregnant (now almost 4 years ago).

The general consensus is that there is no "safe" level of alcohol use--however, what that means is that there have not been studies which determine the safe/dangerous boundary between, say, one drink a week and five a day. No-one has established a minimum level at which there are no adverse effects.

Since I wasn't planning to drink anywhere NEAR the amount studied in the studies which found adverse effects, my take-home was that I didn't have a problem with 1-2 drinks per week past the first trimester.[/quote]

I did the same research.  The fact is no one is going to set about to set a safe level of alcohol to consume during pregnancy.  It's impossible to do an ethical controlled study and there is no compelling reason to set a safe level because there is no medical reason why one would need to drink alcohol during pregnancy.  Nevertheless, Europeans have been drinking moderately during pregnancy for centuries without causing fetal alcohol syndrome.  [/quote]

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