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Interesting article about alcohol use and pregnancy<\/a>, and the volatility of the issues that have come about since Fetal Alcohol Syndrome was identified. <\/p>\n

When Janet Golden was kicking around in utero 53 years ago, pregnant women of her mother’s generation were encouraged to enjoy their 5 o’clock cocktails. A martini calmed nerves; a glass of wine helped a woman to sleep. But don’t drink too much, obstetricians cautioned: all those empty calories!<\/p>\n

By the mid-1960’s, many obstetricians even believed that alcohol could halt premature labor. As noted by Dr. Golden, now a medical historian at Rutgers University in Camden, N.J., when women arrived at the hospital in premature labor, they were often handed a vodka and orange juice or given alcohol intravenously.<\/p>\n

All that began to change with the identification of FAS in 1973. Now the pendulum has swung the other direction.<\/p>\n

Q. After six years of researching fetal alcohol syndrome, do you now have a gut instinct about whether it’s O.K. to drink during pregnancy?<\/p>\n

A. I’ve read so many different arguments from so many different scientists that I don’t think I should comment.<\/p>\n

But in a litigious society, one that is committed to banishing all risk, then you have take a position against all drinking. <\/p>\n

In theory, anyone could be a terrorist, so everyone has to go through the line at the airport. Whereas in more practical terms, we might be able to develop a profile and only screen certain passengers, but we won’t do that. So everyone has to get their luggage X-rayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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