Alcohol During Pregnancy

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Alcohol During Pregnancy

• By Jessica R

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Effects on the baby

• The baby could be born with a smaller skull than
  normal.
• The baby could have abnormal facial features.
• The baby could be born with Mental Retardation.
• The most common disease with drinking while
  pregnant is F.A.S., which stands for fetal
  alcohol syndrome.

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Statistics

• Each year up to 40,000 babies are born with an
  alcohol related birth defect.
• 13 of woman admit to drinking during the
  pregnancy, 3 of woman admit to binge drinking
  while pregnant.

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Why is this a higher risk earlier in the
pregnancy?

• Its more fatal earlier in the pregnancy because
  alcohol breaks down into a cell-damaging compound
  that is absorbed by the fetus, during the first
  trimester the fetus does not have the strength to
  fight it away.

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How do materials pass through the mother?

• The alcohol along with the nutrients from the
  maternal blood, where all the nutrients are found
  flow through the placenta. They then diffuse, or
  transport into fetal blood. This fetal blood is
  transported to the fetus through the umbilical
  cord. . The fetus is living and growing inside of
  the uterus.

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The First Trimester

• In the top picture, shows a photograph of a baby
  at week 8 of the pregnancy. Hands and feet are
  seen and the embryo turns into a fetus.
• The bottom picture shows the development of a
  baby at only six weeks after conception.