Pregnant women are
advised not to drink:
why?
Alcohol can harm the unborn
baby as it passes through the
placenta to the fetus. Because no
safe level of drinking has been
established for pregnant women then
the best advice is not to drink at all.
If you drink heavily during
pregnancy, then the risk of various
birth defects increase significantly,
these abnormalities are called Fetal
Alcohol Syndrome.