Alcohol and Drugs While Pregnant!!

· Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause a wide range of physical and mental birth defects. The term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders” (FASDs) is used to describe the many problems associated with exposure to alcohol before birth. Each year in the United States, up to 40,000 babies are born with FASDs
· Although many women are aware that heavy drinking during pregnancy can cause birth defects, many do not realize that moderate or even light drinking also may harm the fetus. In fact, no level of alcohol use during pregnancy has been proven safe.
· When a pregnant woman drinks, alcohol passes through the placenta to her fetus. In the fetus’s immature body, alcohol is broken down much more slowly than in an adult's body. As a result, the alcohol level of the baby's blood can be higher and remain elevated longer than the level in the mother's blood. This sometimes causes the baby to suffer lifelong damage.
· The March of dimes, helps baby that go through FASD’s. They do marches to help make money and also some other what some baby go through, teen pregnancy is the highest when it come is alcohol and drugs while pregnant. The is so many was to stop there the march of dimes is one way. Help baby and stop the drinking and drug use while pregnant.
· Teen pregnancy is the highest rate of drinking alcohol and doing drugs use, Teens if you need help go to your doctor and talk to him or her. Or talk to someone in your family.. Yazmeen Zambrano Child