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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No citation, I was told that about 8 weeks by my doctor, who I had no reason not to trust.[/quote]

Maybe there is a follow-up question to ask your doctor about this.

[quote=Anonymous] Maybe he only said it to me because he really didn't think the 2 drinks I had would cause birth defects.  It's pretty scary to see that it can and does.

[b]It does sounds from your citation though that the embryonic stage is separate from the fetal stage[/b]. [/quote]

I'm not sure what you mean by this.

It's the same organism, just before or after a fairly arbitrarily-chosen point in time. Yes, the risks of alcohol as a teratogen differ depending on what organs are being formed or going through certain stages of development, but alcohol can have problematic effects [I]in utero[/I] throughout the pregnancy.

In fact -- and I'm going to emphasize this not to be a jerk, but because it is important -- [u][b]alcohol exposure in the first eight weeks of development is MORE likely to cause severe problems than exposure after that, although there is no "safe" time for such exposure.[/u][/b]

e.g.,
"During the fetal stage, prenatal alcohol exposure still has the potential to negatively impact development, but much less than the massive developmental defects that can result from exposure during the embryonic stage."[/quote]

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