When Did The Medical Community First Conclude That Drinking While Pregnant Is Bad?

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@Whack-a-Mole

Yup. It is a cover-their-ass sort of thing. They do not know a limit so they set the limit to zero. No surprise there. Anything else could open them to liability.

That can be restated as: They do not know a limit so they set the limit to zero. No surprise there. Anything else could be dangerous for the fetus.

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@Annie-Xmas

Margaret Mitchell must have known some woman who drank during her pregnancy and gave birth to a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. She describes it perfectly in Gone With The Wind: When Scarlett is pregnant with her second child, she drinks alcohol every night and gies birth to Ella, a child with no attention span who is described as “scatterbrained.”

Sometimes old wives tales turn out to be correct.

@steepone

In the 1940s there were no seat belts and no collapsing steering columns so even in a mild collision the driver was likely get hit in the belly by the steering wheel, I expect that is why pregnant women were advised not to drive

That actually makes a lot of sense.

@Folacin

…My mother reports that her doctor listed drinking, smoking, and coffee and told her to give one up. She gave up coffee, although she wasn’t a heavy drinker. My four brothers and I (averaging 6’2") blame her habits for none of us making the NBA.

My older brother was born in 1972; her doctor advised her not to quite smoking because the stress would be bad for the baby.

[Hilarity_N.Suze]

@nightshadea

these days they tell a expectant mother not to clean the cats litter box…….

They have been saying that for at least 40 years. (Actually what they said was, wear gloves. But I let my husband do it and he didn’t mind. He still is the major cat-box cleaner and the baby is 23.)

[alphaboi867]

I’m 33 and my mother still has my father doing it.