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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would you give your 3 month old baby a tiny sip of alcohol? Where do you draw the line?[/quote]

You jest, but rubbing alcohol on babies gums used to be VERY common for teething. We survived... [/quote]

But it clearly f***ed with your intelligence. [/quote]

I do not understand how historical context of drinking in pregnancy is just thrown off as crazy in this forum over and over on this issue.

Historically MANY drinks had alcohol content. In the middle ages people drank mead and ale at almost every meal. Water was frequently dirty. Pregnant women had no reason to avoid alcohol historically and so throughout human history probably drank alcoholic beverages with meals.

The whole of human history didn't have FASD (although certainly many did).

The body is pretty good at sorting out impurities. It has kept the human race alive and thriving. I certainly think that knowing alcohol does damage and removing its consumption as a regular/frequent thing that pregnant women do is a good thing. But we actually DO have some evidence that moderate drinking isn't that damaging, and that is the whole of human history and the fact that our species didn't turn out like a light back in times when people drank alcohol the same way we drink iced tea. [/quote]

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