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The UK's Chief Medical Officers recommend that, if you are pregnant or planning to get pregnant, the safest approach is not to drink alcohol at all. This will keep the risks to your baby to a minimum. Drinking in pregnancy can lead to long-term harm to the baby. The more you drink, the more the risk.
When you drink alcohol, it passes through the blood through the placenta to the baby. A baby's liver is one of the last organs to develop and doesn't mature until later in pregnancy. Your baby therefore cannot process alcohol as well as you can and too much exposure affects their development.
Drinking alcohol, especially in the first three months of pregnancy, increases the risk of miscarriage, premature birth and your baby having a low birth weight. Drinking after the first 3 months of your pregnancy could affect your baby after they’re born. Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can cause your baby to develop a serious health condition called fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS).
Drinking less heavily, and even drinking heavily on single occasions, may be associated with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, a term which covers many conditions which affect the baby physically, behaviourally and emotionally. The risk is likely to be greater the more you drink. The safest approach is to not drink alcohol at all during pregnancy.
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A range of area specific support services to help you stop smoking are available in East Riding, Hull, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire and City of York. We have also included information and a link to the HNY Swap and Stop initiative.
If you are looking for help and support to quit smoking during pregnancy anywhere in the Humber and North Yorkshire area then Bump The Habit is here to help and support you.
Vicky, 39, from Hull, used to smoke more than 10 cigarettes a day but has now been smoke-free for four weeks (as of July 2020).
Vicky was at college when she first started smoking. It wasn’t something she thought much about initially, but all of her friends smoked and she soon got caught up with the crowd. Once hooked, it became a habit for her, and she was soon smoking up to 10 cigarettes a day, which increased as she got older.
10 May 2024