Link between drinking during pregnancy and alcoholic disorders
Mothers who drink three or more glasses of alchohol at any one occasion in early pregnancy increase their offspring’s chance of developing alcoholic disorders by 21 years of age, according to a new report.
Drinking during early childhood has been associated with mental and behavioural problems, difficulties in thinking, learning and memory, but few studies have so far researched the link between drinking during pregnancy and a child’s risk for alcohol dependence and other disorders in later life.