Anchorage Press
Over the summer, the results of a study funded by the Centers for Disease Control dropped like a bomb in the online publication of BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Ganaecology. The study’s authors concluded that although there is no established safe level of alcohol consumption for pregnant women, “the present study suggests that small volumes consumed occasionally may not present serious concern.” The researchers gathered self-reports of average weekly drinking and binge drinking episodes during pregnancy, from women whose children of those pregnancies were about to turn five years old. Researchers then tested the five-year-olds on measures of intelligence and executive function, to determine what impact the consumption had on the children’s cognitive and behavioral performance.
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