History
It is crazy to think that
in mid-twentieth century doctors would tell pregnant women to have a drink to
prevent pre-term labor (Erica O'Neil). Drinking while pregnant was taboo even
in the Bible, “But he said to me, 'You will become pregnant and have a son. Now
then, drink no wine or other fermented drink and do not eat anything unclean...'”
(Judges
13:7). Paul
Lemoine did a study first of 127 children in 1968 in France; it was
not until Kenneth L. Jones and David W. Smith did their study in 1973 that the
term FAS came out (Kieran D. O'Malley, 2006). They researched the effects of
alcohol on a fetus at the University Of Washington Medical School with a
study of eight children having alcoholic mothers. Jones and Smith then discovered
that alcohol was a “teratogen”, causing “postnatal growth deficiencies, minor
facial abnormalities, and damage to the developing brain that can result in
behavioral, learning, and cognitive abnormalities” (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,
June 26th, 2013). Now there are a lot of different organizations that women can
get help from if they are alcoholic and pregnant, before and after the baby is
born.
Key word – teratogen- a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects (Dictionary.com- Random House, Inc. 20150).
Key word – teratogen- a drug or other substance capable of interfering with the development of a fetus, causing birth defects (Dictionary.com- Random House, Inc. 20150).
References
- Erica O'Neil- https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/discovery-fetal-alcohol-syndrome
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/teratogen
Kieran D. O'Malley, 2006 https://books.google.ca/books?id=rm1KsvyZ_p4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paul+Lemoine+fasd&source=bl&ots=J5mAPUQdaE&sig=EunnhzBZqQjIm1Lwm1nKWfTtXio&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rYJwVfuEL4PToASkmoKgDg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Paul%20Lemoine%20fasd&f=false
- Erica O'Neil- https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/discovery-fetal-alcohol-syndrome
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/teratogen
Kieran D. O'Malley, 2006 https://books.google.ca/books?id=rm1KsvyZ_p4C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Paul+Lemoine+fasd&source=bl&ots=J5mAPUQdaE&sig=EunnhzBZqQjIm1Lwm1nKWfTtXio&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rYJwVfuEL4PToASkmoKgDg&ved=0CD4Q6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=Paul%20Lemoine%20fasd&f=false