August 24, 2006
When a Mama Drinks Alcohol While Pregnant............she certainly drinks for two. The womb is not impervious. There is no filter between the mother's blood stream and the Baby's umbilical source for all of its own circulation and nourishment. When Mama is getting 'happy' on booze; Baby is already "WASTED". Mama can go to CD treatment, find her sanity, sobriety and go on to enjoy a life lived in Recovery from her active alcoholism. Her child however cannot ever recover to operate with a normal intelligence or average judgment. One in one thousand live births in America are still producing 1-2 infants with full fetal alcohol syndrome. Anecdotally, those of us raising these children feel as many as one third of all learning disabilities may have a pre-natal alcohol component.There was a time when whiskey was prescribed to stop premature labor and when a beer before nursing would help let down the nurse milk for Baby through Mama relaxing. These are no longer reccomended. No booze for babies.

August 23, 2006
Fetal Alcohol Exposure is the cause of so much hidden disability; as well as being something so many of us are in sheer denial about- that I decided this blog needed find its own niche in the world of blog. I do not like to see FAS everywhere; it just IS everwhere. It would be best for the babies born exposed to fetal alcohol if their moms could tell the doctors and thus have special needs care and intervention begin immediately. My little boy's diagnosis was made at his birth which was one of the greatest gifts of all. You may be thinking how can a diagnosis of fas be a blessing; but here is just what I mean. If you are visibly recognizable with signs of fetal alcohol exposure-you will get the supports and services you need. If your disabling conditions fall in the wider spectrum disorder now called fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, you may not be offered services and supports. You may not even gain a diagnosis. You might not be diagnosable. If your biological mother will not admit to her drinking while pregnant with you, or was not witnessed to have been doing so- it will be more difficult to gain the appropriate appellation.