Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have devastating effects on your baby and can cause a wide range of physical and mental birth defects. Even having just a few drinks throughout the week can be damaging. According the U.S. Surgeon General, women who binge drink (consume five or more drinks during any one occasion) and women who have five or more drinks a week during pregnancy have a significant chance of giving their unborn baby a range of disorders known as baby fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). These disorders can be lifelong afflictions and include physical, mental, behavioral and learning disabilities. The most severe effect of drinking during pregnancy is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), a combination of physical and mental birth defects. FAS is one of the most common causes of mental retardation and is the only cause that is 100% preventable.
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