Drinking in pregnancy - ADHD?

[hunkermunker]

Findings here

can you say that a bit louder please? I don't think it heard you and I am trying the power of positive suggestion to try and convince it that it DOESN'T want to stay in there until almost 42 weeks like all the others....

I'm trying that too, PPH - plus clary sage

oh what does clary sage do?

lockets, they can just hear that it is an incredibly noisy madhouse out there chez peahead and put off joining it for as long as possible

yooo hooooooooooo hunker!

sigh

offf to google

Oh, sorry - was stacking the dishwasher! Induces labour, apparently - fingers crossed, eh?

It's an essential oil - hang on, will start a thread.

I dont think it is a good idea to drink heavily in pg but

that study a) relied on the women to admit what they were drinking
b)don't all babies have a startle reflex when they are born?
c)is it necessarily bad to still have the startle reflex after 18 weeks gestation?
d) how on earth does adhd get pulled out of all of this?

Read this last night, whilst having my 1 glass of red wine for the evening to celebrate New Year.

Sorry, to me it really is just too simple to link drinking 4 units of alchohol a week in pregnancy to causing ADHD. 4 units really is very little and, depending on your build, alcohol tolerance levels, how quickly you quaff your drink etc it will not adversely affect a substantial proportion of pregnant women, at least imo.

I'm sticking to the current advice of one or two drinks once or twice a week, and I'm happy with that. Incidentally, followed that advice for dd1 and no, she doesn't have ADHD.

Enid, your fourth point is the key to this - they are making a huge and (IMO from the link unjustified) leap from 'startle reflex' to 'ADHD'. It's a guess.

Sorry Mercy, it's jargon! You know how you use jargon at work and forget it isn't widely used outside that context... and it is a word that's been used a lot on the MMR threads. Very roughly means studies looking at large populations to spot trends, roughly. A lof of the studies that are said to show MMR is safe look at the medical records of all children in Denmark, for instance, before and after MMR, to see whether there's been a change in the number of autistic children. Which there hasn't. Doesn't mean MMR doesn't cause problems for a select group of children though, an epidemiological study just wouldn't pick them up.

I do sometimes have suspicions about all the prohibitions put on pregnant women. It feels rather to me as if they operate more as taboos - the same way that all cultures have pregnancy taboos - than actually anything to do with our/our baby's health; and/or that it's part of a way of discounting us, the living breathing thinking women, in favour of our status as precious vessels; and that it's also a way of circumenting the jolly exhortations that "pregnancy isn't an illness" (frankly, I felt utterly shite during both my pregnancies).

Not very coherent, I know, probably just a justification for launching the Inferiorettes into the world on a tide of booze.

great! its a conspiracy! Now feel totally justified in drinking lovely glass of pinot almost EVERY night for two weeks