alcohol

Scared about alcohol consumed during first trimester

I hope this doesn’t sound too ridiculous but I ate a beef stew cooked with beer this evening without really thinking and had assumed that all the alcohol is driven off in cooking.  Later on I suddenly started questioning my assumption and have worked myself into an anxiety state over it.  The stew was probably cooked for at least one and a half hours and contained I think roughly 750ml Speckled Hen (roughly 5% vol?).  It was cooked in a large casserole on the hob with the lid on and I would have eaten less than half of it.  Please can you […]

RCOG advises pregnant women to avoid alcohol despite new research

Taken from  RCOG (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecology) Website RCOG statement on new BJOG research looking at alcohol consumption in early pregnancy and its effects on children Five Danish research papers are published today in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology focussing on alcohol levels and its effect on neurodevelopment of children aged five years. 1,628 women recruited from the Danish National Birth Cohort at their first antenatal visit took part in the studies. The researchers have looked at low, moderate, high and binge drinking and found that overall low to moderate weekly drinking in early pregnancy […]

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