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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 04:42 PM Original message |
Study O.K.'s Light Drinking During Pregnancy. Too Good to Be True? |
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karnac (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 04:51 PM Response to Original message |
1. anything in excess, *IS* excess |
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Broderick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. enabling |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. The study was done in Britain. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
2. Big Deal. Medieval peasant women drank beer and ale every day while pregnant. |
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karnac (495 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. in the middle of the 1800's things changed...... |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. you would rather they had drunk dirty water and died from water-borne disease? |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. Never implied otherwise. |
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cbdo2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 12:37 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Ha - don't forget the mortality rate of newborns back then must have been huge. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 01:55 PM Response to Reply #2 |
34. In medieval days, you couldn't drink the water in the cities because it was so polluted. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 03:03 AM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Some of that is as much (if not more) myth as fact, even though even historians repeat it. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 07:28 AM Response to Reply #35 |
36. I am very interested in the 14th century now, but more from an art perspective...or |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 02:48 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. Ooo, pretty! Now that's a cool church. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 04:21 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. Yeah, that market was a real hallmark of the Florentine republic. |
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mrs_p (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
5. i honestly don't miss it |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I can't give up coffee for more than a day, myself, even if I can't be pregnant. |
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laundry_queen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Yeah, for me it wasn't even an issue. |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:24 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. I drank one cup (black) a day |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. wasn't willing to take the chance. not even drinking during breastfeeding |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
10. And drink heavily during pregnancy if you want to produce the 43rd president of the US |
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Better Today (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:52 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. +1 ROFL |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:15 PM Response to Original message |
11. Anyone who can't quit for 9 months |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That hasn't been true, in my experience. |
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emilyg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I was in my 6th month |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:57 PM Response to Reply #13 |
20. We traveled to Vienna and Prague when my wife was about six months. |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 07:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. But the point is science is saying there is no need to completely abstain |
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ProudDad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. My post is not judgemental! |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 01:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. As a woman who drank while pregnant, I disagree with your assertion |
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nodehopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 08:19 AM Response to Reply #11 |
37. and anyone who doesn't have a "problem" with alcohol |
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marybourg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
16. Common sense. nt. |
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marias23 (256 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
17. Moms to Be: PLEASE DO NOT DRINK |
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MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 07:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Thank you. It's good to hear from a medical professional |
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nodehopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 08:22 AM Response to Reply #17 |
38. what chance? |
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nodehopper (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 08:25 AM Response to Reply #17 |
39. also if you feel so strongly about it, |
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bread_and_roses (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
23. The absolute prohibition against alcohol in pregnancy is a relatively recent, and probably temporary |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 11:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. That's a very good point, or a collection of good points. |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-08-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #23 |
41. I think you're right about the timing of the absolute prohibition and the reason. |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 07:29 PM Response to Original message |
24. "no alcohol whatsoever" was a typical american overreaction |
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Book Lover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 08:21 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. This (nm) |
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enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 09:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Thank you. |
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HuckleB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-06-10 10:21 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. You're probably right. |
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joeglow3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #24 |
31. I LOVE it when people use your type of flawed reasoning |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-07-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. do you really LOVE it? |
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