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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is my understanding:  Embryos don't share a blood supply with their moms - and the embryo doesn't become a fetus until week 9.  So you are probably o.k.   Now that you know that you are pregnant - abstain completely.  Congratulations![/quote]

Alcohol crosses over the placenta.  Drinking during the first trimester causes the most severe problems.  The more you drink the more risk to the embryo/fetus/baby.    Alcohol exposure for embryos is also a problem,even though it's called FAS.

The risk associated with light-to-moderate drinking has an association with how well the mother metabolizes alcohol and with genetic variations.

OP, talk to your doctor. [/quote]

Of course OP should talk to her doctor. I am sure many many women have talked to their doctor in the exact same situation. I know I did. What do you think the doctor is going to say? [b]Its obviously undetectable until birth [/b]unless major issues are present. Do you think the doctor is goignt o recommend terminating? No. They are not. They are going to tell you the limited amount they know about the actual risk -- no more information than is present here -- and tell you to be healthy for the rest of your pregnancy.[/quote]

It often takes far longer than birth to detect problems that result from use of alcohol when pregnant.  Often problems aren't detected until mid to late ES.  [/quote]

Right, but at that point, it is difficult to pin the cause down, or to even know if they are alchohol related. A huge amount of kids have learning issues and social issues without having any alcohol exposure. [/quote]

point being -- because FASD relies on documentation about drinking during pregnancy -- it is super hard to get any reliable statistics about it. So, the answer is, nobody really knows. And no doctor could possibly tell you the relative risk in any certain terms -- i.e., there is a 50% chance of an issue...  We just don't have the working information to do that.

Bottom line, op, it is very unlikely to have full blown FAS. Nobody knows how likely FASD is or how severe it may be. I drank for the first four weeks heavily -- I had a drinking problem -- and I had only that information to comfort myself. Doctor was not able to provide any further reassurance. It is what it is. Obviously many women have been in the same boat.[/quote]

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