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Every bit of alcohol during pregnancy is risky.[/quote]

Then everyone would have had FAS before 1973. Did that happen?

No. So you are wrong.
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Huh? That's like saying that driving without a seatbelt isn't risky because people in the 50's didn't all die.[/quote]

No. But people in that era who did not wear seatbelts and were in an accident were more likely to die. However, there was widespread prenatal alcohol exposure in the 1950s but not widespread fetal alcohol syndrome. These two things are different because one of them happened to the vast majority of people but the other only happened to those unlucky enough to be in an accident[/quote]

The incidence of FAS in various recent studies of children and adults ranges from between 1 and 5% (this is the accepted range) and to 14% and up to 40% in some sun populations.

Indeed, there has been widespread prenatal alcohol exposure and in some populations is increasing. The message is not getting out. [/quote]

This whole entire thread is just another example of worried-well privileged anxieties about childrearing.

The fact is, there ARE populations with awful alcoholism and FAS rates -- such as extremely poor reservations/indigenous communities in the US and Canada.  They desperately need support, treatment, interventions.  A well-off DC woman who had a few glasses of champagne or even a big "girls night out" before her positive test is extremely unlikely to face any repercussions.  [/quote]

She won't.  But her children might.  [/quote]

:roll: there is approximately zero point zero to the zeroth power evidence that light drinking causes any developmental issues.  [/quote]

Is that what a big "girl's night out" means you?[/quote]

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