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How a Drunk Mother Effects the Fetus! When a woman is pregant, everything she eats or drinks goes staright to the fetus inside her. The fetus lives within the placenta, a organ attached to her uterus. The planceta suppiles the nutrients to the developing fetus through the umbitical end. Until the baby is born, everything is necessary for the development and growth come through the placenta. A women who drinks, the blood vessels in her stomach absorb the alcohol and transmit it directly to the blood stream. Alcohol remains in the blood stream until it is metabolized or broken down by various chemicals in the body especially in the liver. Mean while the alcohol in the mother's system easily passes from her blood strem to the placenta, where it effects the fetus. A heavy drinker which is estimated as one who drinks 4-6 a day will cause prenatal brain development to the fetus. It also can happen by a women who my have only one drink a day, or even by mother's who drink in mooderation!

Ciara Ferguson