Pregnancy

Effects of alcohol on the future babies: what do we know about it?

Pregnancy is such special time in which mother starts to rejoice to that it soon will have a child. Many parents will try to create good surrounding conditions for the child and will spend not not enough time and money for preparing their house to that soon there there will be a new small little man.

And how into the account of time children's home in which it is within nine months? Whether really uterus - the best and most protected place for yet not born child?

Several decades ago, many doctors who participated at sorts, have been shocked by that many children were born the deformed: had obvious delay in growth, a small brain and the specific person. A lot of time for did not leave connecting such deviations with the fact of the use by mother of alcohol during pregnancy. It has received the name an alcoholic syndrome.

Though we know about this syndrome, there is a considerable quantity of women which take alcohol during pregnancy. But our knowledge in the given area is till now limited.

The medical community agrees, that the alcoholic syndrome appears because of the use of alcoholic drinks by mother regularly or in considerable quantities during pregnancy. The exact quantity of alcohol which to affect deviations of your child can is precisely not known, as it depends on many factors, such as: weight of mother, a pregnancy stage, percentage of alcohol etc.

As we know, that the alcoholic syndrome can harm to your child, it is necessary to exclude alcoholic drinks from a diet for the period of pregnancy. The alcoholic syndrome is not hereditary disease and appears only at the use of alcohol in the course of pregnancy. Hence, if the woman had serious problems with alcohol throughout all her life, but did not use it during pregnancy it will not make any effect on the child.

The medical community also confirms that fact, that the use of alcohol by the father of the child cannot cause an alcoholic syndrome. On the other hand well-known that fact, that if the father takes alcoholic drinks regularly the pregnant woman feels desire too to take alcohol.

Many children born from mothers who take alcohol, will receive other syndrome after a birth. They will test such symptoms as the raised irritability, a nervous trembling, and it only some symptoms from all possible. The care of our not born babies begins with care of pregnant women. The best choice will offer the pregnant woman nonalcoholic fruit juice or a glass of pure freshening water. And it becomes the first step on a way to strong following generation.