The purpose of our analyses of the ECLS-B 9-month cohort was to explore the relation-
ships between maternal alcohol exposure and subsequent child characteristics and parent–
child interactions. In some instances, our findings are similar to other previous results about
maternal alcohol use and infant development. For example, our findings correspond to
those of other reports about heavy drinking for women, with White and African American
females being overrepresented (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,
2008). However, with respect to poverty, the sample of women who reported having con-
sumed higher levels of alcohol during the last trimester of pregnancy in the ECLS-B is
significantly more likely to be of nonpoverty status than that in the general population.