It's not a secret for anyone that during pregnancy a woman must strictly follow the established recommendations for the birth of a healthy child. A particularly strict rule has been established with regard to alcoholic beverages, namely, the prohibition of their use. To make this recommendation more convincing, it is necessary to understand how alcohol affects pregnancy.
It is worth starting with the fact that any alcoholic product contains alcohol (ethanol). It is this substance that has a negative effect on the fetus of a pregnant woman. After all, the fetus feeds on the same as the mother. Accordingly, when a woman drinks alcohol, they also enter the child's body, which poses a serious threat to his health and even life.
So, speaking about the effect of alcohol on pregnancy, it is first necessary to note its ability to increase the risk of termination of pregnancy. An equally important point is the possibility of anomalies in the development of the fetus.
It should be said that alcohol has a very detrimental effect on the development of the child's brain, contributes to the development of all kinds of pathologies, which ultimately lead to mental retardation of the child. To be more precise, alcohol destroys brain cells, and the ability of a child's body, which has not yet formed to the end, to restore these cells is limited. That is, the child is likely to have problems with the development of intelligence.
Also, alcohol has a detrimental effect on the nerve cells of the fetus, and this, as a result, disrupts the nervous system as a whole. Such an influence on both the brain and the nervous system leads to the fact that in the future the child may have problems with communication, socialization, and interaction with others. This is due to possible difficulties in mastering speech, logical structures. Hence, poor performance at school, university, as well as complicated self-realization in life.
In addition, if a pregnant woman abused alcohol, then it is quite possible that the child will be born with such a disease as fetal alcohol syndrome. This disease manifests itself in the weight of the child at birth below normal, in retarded physical development, in the underdeveloped area of the jaw, and, finally, in the disruption of the functioning of the vital organs, brain and nervous system of the baby.
Thus, there are so many confirmations that pregnant women should not drink alcoholic beverages that there can not even be a thought about the possibility of drinking them even in small doses. So, if healthy offspring is more important to a woman, it is worth refraining from alcohol during pregnancy, and even better for life.
