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The effects that smoking, drinking alcohol, drugs and extreme dieting during pregnancy can have on the birth of the child are discussed. Alcohol puts the baby at risk for fetal alcohol syndrome causing birth defects, while smoking soaks a fetus of oxygen, which can cause slow growth and inadequate weight gain.

U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona is warning pregnant women to abstain from alcohol consumption to eliminate the possibility of giving birth to a baby with a fetal alcohol spectrum [...]

Almost half of pregnant women in Denmark continue to drink small amounts of alcohol throughout pregnancy. This study investigated the association between alcohol consumption during pregnancy and semen quality and [...]