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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Babies exposed to alcohol in the womb can develop fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). These disorders include a wide range of physical, behavioral, and learning problems. The most severe type of FASD is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). It is caused by heavy drinking during pregnancy."

In other words, you don't have to be a heavy drinker to harm your child, but heavy drinking will do the most damage.  The fetus is so much smaller than you are and alcohol passes readily through the placenta (less so through breast milk).  Your "moderate" drinking wouldn't be moderate for a child, much less a fetus.

There are no "clear" studies b/c it would require having pregnant people drink alcohol and no ethics committee would ever approve that type of study.  However, the evidence is clear.  Alcohol causes damage.  Will a 1/2 glass of wine be an issue if you do it once or twice?  Probably not, but OP was discussing regular, moderate drinking.  Unless you're an alcoholic, it shouldn't be hard to stop.[/quote]

What source is the quoted material from?

Everything I’ve read about FAE/FASD suggests diagnosis is based on self report (presumed voluntary) of consuming alcohol during pregnancy after a child is identified as having any one of a number of attention/behavioral/social/developmental/learning challenges, some of which are very common (depression, baby sleeping poorly, poor math skills - yes I realize there is a spectrum in severity for all of these things, though according to CDC even mild symptoms are FASD). At best that shows a correlation, but if only inquiring about drinking during pregnancy once a problem is identified, there’s no way of knowing how many women drank during pregnancy whose children did/do not have problems.  I have a hard time buying into this “science.”

FWIW, I’m pregnant and have had no alcohol since I conceived, having stopped drinking at ovulation. I likely also have FASD, because I have mild symptoms of some things on the list of signs and symptoms - I wear glasses and suck at math - and my mom drank lightly and then occasionally when she was pregnant with me, as was typical at the time. [/quote]

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