Getting the facts through without them feeling like they are being judged?

26/10/2010 admin 3 comments

I SOOO bad want to get the fact about fetal alcohol exposure , out there, but I get the feeling that a lot of women who do/did drink feel that I am judging, when that is not at all true.

You can’t take away what has already been done, but know what the effect are the the baby is very important for appropriate care/treatment.

Drinking during the first 8 WEEKS is the most harmful to the baby, even though some women didn’t know they were pregnant…. it just is.

I want people to think twice before drinking even 1 drop while pregnant…. no amount is safe. Docs might say 1 drink is “okay”, but “okay” is relative. Some people think it’s okay to get tattoos (my husband and I both have them), but the fact is, tattoos are painful, cause scarring and have risks attached to them.

So the risks may be “okay” with some people, but it’s still there.

I am raising a son with FAS and have to someday explain to him why simple things are so hard to understand, why a breeze causes him pain, why he is so tiny, why his heart is in the wrong place causing a choking sensation.

—- It’s not because he’s not love or becuase someone wanted to hurt him, but because of the myths of what alcohol can really do to a baby, the myth that if you don’t know your’re pregnant, that the baby will be okay, the idea that you HAVE to binge drink everyday to have an effect….. this is why he had FAS, because people tell pregnant women that it “okay”….. well it’s NOT okay, it hurts.
Why won’t people believe what alcohol REALLY does to babies.

Here is a timeline of what systems are effected by alcohol at different staged of pregnancy

http://www.acbr.com/FAS/Graphics/teratogens.jpg

Why won’t people believe what alcohol REALLY does to babies.

Here is a timeline of what systems are effected by alcohol at different staged of pregnancy

http://www.acbr.com/FAS/Graphics/teratogens.jpg

All it takes is 1 drink at the time when the heart moves from the center of the fetus to the left, for there to be malrotation and for the heart to noe get to the right spot. In my son his is over his trahea and when his blood pressure or heart rate goes up or he gags. There are many things that take years to show up.

“perfectly healthy” is relative. I dont know many kids who were NOT exposed that are “perfectly healthy”. Just wait until you kids get older, the effects will start to shine through.

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Written by xjenn111 about 2 years ago.

Thank you for sharing your story and I’m sorry about your son. It’s also very important for you to put this on this forum because tehre are a lot of different opinions out there and maybe this will scare people into to taking the safer route.
Written by Pippin about 2 years ago.

I think that extremism is also harmful. “One drop” (or ‘one sip’ or ‘one drink’ does not cause FAS … or any other harm. “One drop” will not raise your BAC even a millionth of a percent … and it’s the alcohol in your blood, not your glass, that eventually affects the growing embryo or fetus.

I’m terribly sorry that your son has FAS. It’s a tragedy, certainly. But FAS is associated with HEAVY drinking (not necessarily ‘binging every night’ but heavy, continuous drinking) NOT a single drink (either once, or half a dozen times over the course of the pregnancy.)

I note that your timeline just names ‘systems’ — it doesn’t say how much alcohol is needed to do harm.

Please do provide a cite that shows a case of FAS that resulted from ONE drink, or ONE sip of alcohol. I’d be very interested to see it.

EDIT: I requested a cite — a medical research article that demonstrates that ‘one drink’ can cause this problem. (A quick PubMed search under ‘heart malrotation’ and ‘malrotation fetus alcohol’ and ‘Fetal alcohol syndrome heart’ and found NO hits that indicate that ONE drink can cause this problem. (Though the FAS search turned up many hits for articles discussing cardiac issues in children with FAS.)
Written by ♥♥Blue Eyes♥♥ about 2 years ago.

I agree with Pippin.

I’m sorry that your son is suffering from FAS, but i don’t believe alchohal itself hurts babies, its the amount of alchohal that is taken.

With both my pregnancies, i have had 2/3 glasses of wine (mixed with gingerale) throughout my whole term and both my babies are healthy.

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