I hope people can see that this is a project and that this project has a no mercy policy on FASD prevention. So I as the author have a duty to inform everyone that I am not without sympathy for any mom (including family) who gives birth to a baby that has any of the FASD syndromes. I can’t imagine the feeling or hurt because I have not gone through that. But I have done sufficient reading.
I know there are FASD studies with alcohol and news items out there that say it’s all right to drink one drink a day or three drinks a week, etc., while pregnant. They differ depending on from whose source you’re reading or listening. All FASD science, after all, comes from people who are in the know about alcohol complications with fetuses yet some study will undoubtedly surface, like it always does that will say that a drink here or there is safe.
Do they also tell you that a few drinks at or around the 23rd day of pregnancy is the developmental timing for facial features whereby the child could grow up with widely spaced eyes, no philtrum, a thin upper lip or an odd head shape, and worse?
Yet, whatever that study tells you, throw the damn thing away. Claims about drinking when pregnant can only come from unreliable, underfunded cheap scientific study. Are these sources credible or safe enough for your child? Will you have 3 drinks a week if the study says, “OK,” to it. The source I use comes from health Canada that says NO DRINKS are safe during pregnancy. One might say that Health Canada is taking the “safe” stance by making this assertion. Being on board with Health Canada is a really great plan...
…especially when we think about the baby. We all know the baby lives in a sac that allows liquor to pass through the placental barrier at every drink. The baby gets drunker than you and passes out long before you do on a night out drinking. Even while only sipping on a drink, you’re still putting your baby into a sleep and then on to a comatose sort of sleep that can last for days if you don’t stop that night (or week). You’re just asking for trouble. Do you know who is not asking for trouble?
This simply cannot happen to your little one. I also want to stress too that the brain is one of the first organs to begin development and the last to end development until just before birth. The 23rd day is not just one concerning time. At the wrong time, drinks can leave the new born with big bad problems that can literally have the parents cornered. There is no great solution for the FASD child. Better to know now. The baby must win first. When it speaks, listen carefully.
So one last time: Which baby is yours?
We thought so!
Let the fetus do its job of becoming your baby.
No Booze. No Drugs. Being Real.
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