Pregnancy and Alcohol - issues related to women, alcohol, drug addiction, and pregnancy - Pregnancy Prevention, fetal alcohol, children, FASD

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Alcohol use during pregnancy is a leading preventable cause of birth defects that include a range of conditions referred to as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

Alcohol and Pregnancy Information

If You Are Pregnant... The safest choice is to not drink alcohol when you are pregnant or could become pregnant. There is NO known safe amount, safe time, or safe kind of alcohol to drink when you are pregnant. If you are pregnant and have been drinking alcohol, it is not too late to stop.

Alcohol and Pregnancy Materials

Click here for a printable version of our fact sheet on alcohol and pregnancy. The fact sheet provides an overview of women and alcohol, including information on fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

Email the Healthy Choices Project to order a free copy. While supplies last, Wisconsin residents can order up to 50 free FactSheets.

Check out the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities new factsheet, "5 Things You Should Know About Alcohol and Pregnancy" and podcast "Put Down That Drink if You Are Pregnant (Or Trying to Be)"

Did you know...

When women drink alcohol during pregnancy their children can have a lot of life-long problems called fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD).

Individuals with FASD can have delays, learning problems, or mental retardation; problems with attention, communication, and social and behavior issues; have unusual sensory sensitivity to things such as touch; be small at birth and have trouble gaining weight; and can have physical problems such as heart trouble.

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is one of a number of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). A child with FAS has cognitive problems, is small in size, and has facial differences.

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