Study: Low to moderate drinking in early pregnancy deemed OK
It’s common practice for women who are pregnant to pass when it comes to alcohol – for fear that it might cause complications in their children. However, a new study has revealed that low to even moderate drinking during early pregnancy is not linked with developmental problems in children up to five years old, the BBC News reported.
Published in the BJOG journal, the study out of Denmark found that having a standard drink – up to 12 g of alcohol – one to eight times a week was not associated with harm to the mother’s child.
According to BBC News, researchers recruited 1,600 pregnant women at their first prenatal visit. The women were asked about their alcohol intake – low consumption being one to four drinks per week, moderate as five to eight, and high consumption as nine or more drinks per week.