Pregnancy: Moderate Drinking Doesn't Harm Baby's Neurodevelopment

While too much of anything can be bad at any time, a little drinking - 3 to 7 glasses of alcohol a week - does not seem to harm fetal neurodevelopment, according a large study published in the online only journal BMJ Open. Good thing too, or entire generations of children would be mentally stunted - not drinking at all during pregnancy became the cultural norm a generation ago and it used the same kinds of longitudinal study that now says moderate drinking is okay. And more affluent and better educated mums-to-be tend to drink more than women who are less well off, say the researchers, which means that kids from wealthier families should be neurodevelopmentally limited, but are not. read more

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