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RESEARCH: How Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Affects Your Child’s Brain

RESEARCH: How Alcohol Consumption During Pregnancy Affects Your Child’s Brain

Drinking alcohol at any time during pregnancy can cause serious health problems for your baby. Alcohol includes wine, wine coolers, beer and liquor.

When you drink alcohol during pregnancy, the alcohol in your blood quickly passes through the placenta and the umbilical cord to your baby. The placenta grows in your uterus (womb) and supplies the baby with food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. No amount of alcohol has been proven safe at any time during pregnancy.

Drinking any amount of alcohol at any time during pregnancy can harm your baby’s developing brain leading to anxiety, depression, and poor attention in youth, a new research from Australia’s University of Sydney said.

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