Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause your baby to be born with fetal alcohol syndrome, or FAS. Children with FAS are born with facial deformities, learning disabilities, and neurological problems, and new research is showing that, instead of targeting one area of the brain as previously thought, alcohol actually affects many different parts of the brain. The way alcohol affects an unborn baby is hard to predict; some children whose mothers drank heavily during pregnancy seem to escape FAS entirely, while others will have subtle or pronounced neurological problems.
So when you find yourself craving "just one glass," ask yourself what's more important: your baby's health or that one drink?
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