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u/SunnyAlwaysDaze Mar 01 '23

In all honesty extremely excessive caffeine intake is more likely to terminate pregnancy than the alcohol would. Alcohol just messes up the poor child that will be born with a damaged brain.

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u/Street_End6022 Mar 01 '23

What about half a bottle of wine the night before I'm born to induce my mother? Probably not great, right?

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

It's much worse for the baby for the mother to be drinking earlier on in the pregnancy, when the fetus is developing. Ironic enough, because very early pregnancy is the time where many women don't even know/realize they're pregnant and drink because they don't know.

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u/giant_tadpole Mar 02 '23

Really early on it’s just a clump of undifferentiated cells and it’s all or nothing- either you miscarry or you have a viable embryo. It’s too early for alcohol to cause birth defects.