Prenatal alcohol exposure may stunt child's growth.(Women's Health)(children of older mothers who drank during pregnancy were shorter and had smaller head circumferences)

Publication: Internal Medicine News

Publication Date: 15-NOV-05

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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. -- Children of older mothers who drank during pregnancy were shorter and had smaller head circumferences at ages 7 and 14 years than other children at those ages, it was reported at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism.

Children of mothers who were 30 or older at delivery were affected above a threshold of moderate alcohol consumption, defined as about one alcoholic drink a day at the time of conception.

Many women reduced their drinking during pregnancy, but the heaviest drinkers reduced their...

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