Brain Wiring Development During gestation and nursing

[Jerry D Mead]

Every documented case of FAS is from a binge-drinking, alcoholic female, usually neglectful of diet and often using tobacco and other drugs. Moderate drinking has nothing to do with FAS.

If there was anything to moderate drinking being a danger to unborn fetus', then the world's geniuses would have all come from Muslim countries where alcohol is forbidden, and the Mediterranean basin (the real birthplace of civilation where women have always consumed wine)would have produced dwarfs and idiots instead of all the great artists, philosophers and physicians that it did. Someone should have told Pliny the Elder, Socrates (sp?) and DaVinci that their mama's shouldn't have drunk wine during pregnancy.

One study reported on in Lancet actually showed that children of moderately drinking mothers had fractionally higher (though admittedly not really significant)intelligence levels by the time they entered school.

The Wine Curmudgeon