'Moderate' Drinking During Pregnancy Has No Effect on Young Children: Study
'Moderate' Drinking During Pregnancy Has No Effect on Young Children: Study
Jun 20, 2012 6
(HealthDayNews) -- One of the cardinal rules for expectant moms: don't drink.
But a new study out of Denmark is throwing that maxim into doubt. It finds that 5-year-olds whose mothers drank low to moderate levels of alcohol (between one and eight drinks a week) during early pregnancy showed no ill effects.
Alcohol consumption during pregnancy that exceeded the "moderate" threshold, however, was associated with a lower attention span among children in that age group.
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