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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again. Wow, this thread really took off. I understand the "why would you take the risk when it isn't necessary?" argument -- in fact, that is the exact rationale I use for not eating deli meat during pregnancy, but I don't think it's a substitute for factual information. Here are my parameters for alcohol during pregnancy: Not until the second trimester. I only drink wine. One glass, 5 oz. or less (which is the official serving size for "one drink", my wine glasses are very small). Consumed slowly (in half an hour or more). Only with a meal (which is always dinner). Within those parameters, I never feel buzzed, not even lightly. I have a hard time believing that this could actually cause FAS or any type of problem for that matter, but that is what people suggest.

The anti-alcohol people just undermine their credibility to me by being so shrill and hyperbolic in their arguments. (Kind of like a lot of the anti-circ people, although I am anti-circ myself ... you just don't do yourself or your cause any favors by talking about something that is an everyday occurrence in extreme terms). I am always going to be more influenced by rationality, facts, and numbers than anecdotes, emotion, moralizing, and speculation. One takeaway you could glean from the Oster analysis is that there is, for various reasons, not enough research to draw a definitive conclusion about where the line is, and not much potential for being able to conduct the kind of research that would yield real answers. So, you just have to decide what feels cautious to you.  For a lot of people that will be complete abstinence, for others it might be one drink a week, or a month, or whatever. But it's too bad that we can't know for sure. Or have a rational conversation about this issue, for that matter.

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Interesting. I drank a small amount with food during the first few weeks prior to placenta formation (because the alcohol is diluted by your entire system) and maybe nothing during the second trimester. A public health researcherand neurobiologist I knew told me once that the problem is that alcohol is not filtered out of the uterus quickly enough and that baby's kidneys/liver can't break it down. So the problem is too much alcohol in a closed system. I did have a few half drinks at the end.[/quote]

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