Light Drinking During Pregnancy

3. Sittig L, Shukla P, Herzing L, Redei E. Strain-specific vulnerability to alcohol exposure in utero via hippocampal parent-of-origin expression of deiodinase-III. FASEB March 23, 2011, doi:10.1096/fj.10-179234. Babies with a certain version of a thyroid gene are more susceptible to damage from alcohol.

4. Paule Latino-Martel, Doris S.M. Chan, Nathalie Druesne-Pecollo, Emilie Barrandon, Serge Hercberg, and Teresa Norat. LMaternal Alcohol Consumption during Pregnancy and Risk of Childhood Leukemia: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev May 2010 19;1238. A "yes-or-no" study indicate that maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy is associated with a significantly increased risk of AML in young children.

5. Robinson M, Oddy W, McLean N, Jacoby P, Pennell CE, de Klerk N, Zubrick S, Stanley F, Newnham J. Low–moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and risk to child behavioural development: a prospective cohort study. BJOG 2010;117:1139–1152. Children exposed to 2–6 drinks per week of alcohol showed no increase in later behavioral problems. The study didn't observe physical developmental outcomes.

6. C.H. Ramlau-Hansen, G. Toft, M.S. Jensen, K. Strandberg-Larsen, M.L. Hansen, and J. Olsen. Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy and semen quality in the male offspring: two decades of follow-up Hum. Reprod. (2010) 25(9): 2340-2345. Prenatal drinking information was taken. Two decades later, blood and semen test on these now grown men, indicated the sperm concentration decreased with increasing prenatal alcohol exposure.

7. Klonoff-Cohen H, Lam-Kruglick, Gonzalez C. Effects of maternal and paternal alcohol consumption on the success rates of in vitro fertilization and gamete intrafallopian transfer. Fertility and Sterility Volume 79, Issue 2 , Pages 330-339, February 2003 Both mom's and dad's drinking negatively affects the success rate of in vitro fertilization and gamete intrafallopian transfer.

8. O'Leary C,Nassar N, Kurinczuk JJ, Bower C. The effect of maternal alcohol consumption on fetal growth and preterm birth. BJOG Volume 116, Issue 3, pages 390–400, February 2009. Moms drinking less than 60 grams of alcohol a week and no more than two standard drinks per occasion did not have more preterm birth or small-for-gestational-age infants.

9. O'Leary C, Zubrick S, Taylor C, Dixon G BA, Bower C. Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Language Delay in 2-Year-Old Children: The Importance of Dose and Timing on Risk. PEDIATRICS Vol. 123 No. 2 February 1, 2009, pp. 547-554. No association was found between low levels of prenatal alcohol consumption and language delay at any period of time in a child's development, compared to mothers who engaged in heavy or binge drinking.

10. DeRoo LA, Wilcox AJ, Drevon CA, Lie RT. First-trimester maternal alcohol consumption and the risk of infant oral clefts in Norway: a population-based case-control study. American Journal of Epidemiology July 30, 2008, doi: 10.1093/aje/kwn186. Researchers found that babies whose mothers reported binge drinking during the first trimester were at an increased risk of having cleft lips and cleft palates than were babies whose mothers were nondrinkers.

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