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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geez, PP. A sip or two before you know you are pregnant or at a wedding is one thing, but the OP and crazies like you are obviously looking for studies to make you feel better about drinking regularly. Admit it. I didn't drink during my four pregnancies because the health of my babies was more important than my own needs....it's called being responsible. I know two couples who adopted babies with FAS, and they are praying that the kids develop normally. So far, so good....just mild delays...but they are still too young to tell what ultimate delays/disabilities they will have. And, I'm a policy analyst who has done a great deal of work related to child welfare, so I've read the studies, sat through trainings, and met older teens/young adults with FAS. Seriously, ladies....just stay off the sauce during pregnancy. If you can't....or don't want to...then you are simply selfish. [/quote]

I gotta say... I completely agree with this. [/quote]

I have a nephew with FAE. Kid's mom was a woman with depression who didn't believe in mental health treatment and a chronic alcoholic, who was so intoxicated when she went into labor the hospital made some attempts to halt labor. That is a far, far cry from an occasional drink during pregnancy, especially when you consider that for millenia fermented beverages were what many cultures often drank. You're displaying self-righteousness over a position that is not and cannot be scientifically confirmed given ethical constraints. 
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You know what else was common over millenia? Child mortality. Killing or abandoning children with birth defects. Short life spans. Your argument is absurd.

It's dangerously ignorant to believe humans have evolved to be able to process alcohol without harm. Alcohol causes birth defects, developmental delays and disorders, and numerous health problems in humans including disease and death. We have definitive proof that alcohol causes these things, we just don't know the levels of exposure that will affect each individual. Just because today's culture has normalized drinking does not mean it's benign at some arbitrary level of consumption.[/quote]

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