Report: Light drinking “no risk to baby’”

BBC News
Posted: October 31st, 2008 by Steve Trinward

“The University College London team classed ‘light’ drinking as up to two drinks a week throughout pregnancy. The study of 12,500 three-year-olds even found a lower risk of some problems in children of such drinkers. But experts were divided over whether the study was reassuring or could lull women into a false sense of security. Government advice says pregnant women, or those trying to conceive, should avoid drinking alcohol. But if they do choose to drink, they should drink no more than one or two units of alcohol once or twice a week and should not get drunk.” (10/30/08)

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