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.