If they know it harms their baby, why do women still drink?
11/05/2012 15:10
When Janet Christie was pregnant with her first child, she was an alcoholic.
When waves of morning sickness hit, she was reaching for a drink.
And the more Christie tried to stop, the stronger the compulsion to drink became.
“At the time, quitting breathing seemed easier than quitting drinking,” said Christie, who lives in Sooke, B.C.
It was the late ‘70s and there wasn’t much talk about the dangers of drinking while pregnant.
But deep down she knew that her drinking couldn’t have been good for her son.
When he was born, she counted 10 fingers and 10 toes. She thought her baby was OK.