Browsing through the mumsnet archive recently, I found this thread here and thought it could offer some insight into the drinking in pregnancy debate.
Most posters here admit to moderate drinking, which has an upper limit of about 8 units a week. Given that the thread was started in 2002, the children of the pregnancies discussed here should all be at least 8 years old now.
This is when the anti-alochol brigade say that some mental retardation on the Foetal Alcohol spectrum can be detected (ie poor concentration, poor hand -eye coordination, ADHD) as opposed to full-blown Foetel Alcohol Syndrome, which is detectable at birth, and is the result of very heavy drinking (ie 40 units +)
So, my question is, if any of your original posters from this thread are still here, do any of you attribute any of these symptoms in your children, and if so, would you link it to your moderate alcohol in pregnancy?
(I write with no judgement by the way, given that I drunk on average 3 x 175 ml glasses of wine in pregnancy a week, which works out as 6 units)
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8 years after moderate drinking in pregnancy, can you detect FAS?
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sohighoh · 13/04/2010 14:44
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