Light Drinking During Pregnancy
CanFASD responds to confusing information that continues to cloud the issues.
A recent article, in the BBC (April 16, 2013) reported on a study from the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BJOG). The headlines: “Light drinking ‘not harmful to baby’ say scientists”, and “Light drinking during pregnancy does not harm child behavioural or mental development.”
“It is well known that Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the most common type of developmental disability worldwide, some of the most important unanswered questions in the field are “how much alcohol in pregnancy is too much?” or what is a “safe” amount of alcohol consumption in pregnancy and can we remember information on how much we drink accurately,” says Jocelynn Cook, Executive Director of the Canada Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Research Network (CanFASD), Canada’s first comprehensive national research network on FASD. Sterling Clarren, Scientific Director of CanFASD agreed that, “while the article is clear about the low dose of alcohol that they say is safe, we know that people may misinterpret this message and inadvertently place their fetuses at higher risk.”
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