STV News (Scotland) - I quit
drinking when I learned about baby - but damage was done
Hellen Fernie
stopped drinking as soon as she learned she was pregnant - but at 21
weeks the damage was already done.
University
of Rochester - Alcohol during pregnancy—September is FASD
awareness month
September marks
fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) awareness month. Up to 80
percent of people affected by FASD don’t even know they have the
disability.
CBC.ca
(Canada) - Kwanlin Dün partners in program to help people
with FASD in justice system
Yukon's Kwanlin
Dün First Nation is partnering in a new program aimed at helping
Indigenous people with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD)
navigate the justice system.
Smithers
Interior News - Book seeks to de-stigmatize FASD
A new book by a
former Quick resident is shining a more positive light on the trauma
of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).
Gisborne
Herald (New Zealand) - FASD ‘one of the great crises of
our time’
History will judge
us harshly on the under- diagnosis of children born with fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in New Zealand, predicts Children’s
Commissioner Judge Andrew Becroft.
Newsroom
(New Zealand) - Courts no place for fetal alcohol victims
People with fetal
alcohol syndrome are still being punished by the criminal justice
system, despite the Teina Pora case, writes Emma Espiner.
Irish
Times (Ireland) - No amount of alcohol is safe for a baby
at any stage of pregnancy, HSE warns
No amount of
alcohol is safe for a baby at any stage of pregnancy, the Health
Service Executive has warned.
Particle
- PROFESSOR CAROL BOWER: PUTTING THE FOLATE IN YOUR BREAD
If you eat
Australian bread you can thank Carol and her team for the extra
folate in your diet. In the early 1990’s, Carol’s research with
the Telethon Kids Institute found a direct link between folate and
the prevention of neural tube defects in babies.
Modern
Ghana (Ghana) - It’s FASD Month: Is Alcohol Use A Public
Health Concern In Ghana?
According to the
New Zealand Health Promotion Agency, alcohol could basically be
described as the ingredient found in beer, wine and spirits that
causes drunkenness.
Parent24
(South Africa) - Why alcohol remains a big threat to unborn
babies in South Africa
Alcohol
consumption is socially acceptable for individuals of legal drinking
age. However, drinking during pregnancy is harmful and can lead to
irreversible foetal cognitive and developmental issues.
Healthcare
Triage - Drinking Alcohol During Pregnancy
Our approach to
alcohol and pregnancy is full of good intentions, but may lead to
more harm than good. Punitive policies can dissuade women from
getting prenatal care, which runs counter to the overall goal of
healthier mothers and infants.
ADF
(Australia) - Victorian research leads in FASD prevention
The prevalence of
FASD in Australia is not well understood, but is thought to be higher
than previously estimated.3 There is some data to suggest that it
affects between 3% to 5% of Australians and it occurs wherever
alcohol is consumed, impacting people across socio-economic, racial
and education boundaries.
The
Conversation (UK) - Alcohol advice for pregnant women – a
lost opportunity to communicate new guidelines
Pregnant women in
the UK are now officially advised to consume no alcohol at all. These
guidelines, from the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), were issued in
January 2016, and replaced a previous recommendation that women
should limit themselves to one or two units of alcohol, once or twice
per week, and not get drunk.
Scheffield
News (UK) - Lindsey talks about the dangers of drinking
during pregnancy
As part of
International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) awareness day,
Sheffield City Council is highlighting the effects of drinking
alcohol whilst pregnant.
Nursing
in Practice (UK) - 'Mixed messaging' around drinking
alcohol while pregnant, says RCM
The Royal College
of Midwives has warned of ‘mixed messaging’ after a study
revealed that midwives are giving different advice around alcohol
consumption during pregnancy.
VIDEOS and
MATERIALS
FAS-Föreningen
– One in a Hundred
Just in time for
9/9 -19 the Swedish FAS-föreningen launched the campaign
www.1av100.se (one in a hundred). The campaign targeted all child
healthcare units (BVC) in Sweden.
IAS -
Alcohol guidelines for pregnant women
Alcohol exposure
during pregnancy can have negative maternal and infant outcomes. Due
to a lack of clear evidence of a ‘safe’ threshold for alcohol
consumption during pregnancy, the UK Chief Medical Officers (CMOs)
revised their guidance in 2016 to advise pregnant women to abstain
completely from alcohol.
Michelle
Ferreri - Brook Parcel's Story of Living With FASD: Fetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
Brook Parcels is
15 years old and shares her powerful story of how your decisions
impact an unborn baby.
TheBrilliantEye
- Reinier's 12 Minute Chat re: Being On The FASD Spectrum -
for Sept 9th, 2019
Lots of talking
here. But hopefully some good info and a healthy perspective from
INSIDE the FASD bubble.
FASD
Network of Saskatchewan - Community FASD Presentation
Here's a condensed
version of the FASD Network's Community Presentation on Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder.
KSNV
News 3 Las Vegas - Renewed warning to pregnant women: Don't
drink
According to
UNLV’s School of Medicine, despite years of warnings about the
risks associated with drinking while pregnant, doctors across
Southern Nevada are still reporting high rates of FASD, Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder
Bang
Up Productions - 18th Annual FASD Walk for Awareness with
MACSI
thedtiSouthAfrica
- Deputy Minister Gina delivers Sobriety week Keynote
Address
Deputy Minister
Gina Calls on Liquor Industry to Enhance Awareness on Dangers of
Consuming Alcohol While Pregnant and on Alcohol Abuse.
Adopt4LifeON
- Adopt4Life Webinars: Raising Kids & Youth with
FASD—Mental Health Matters
When you’re
raising kids and youth with FASD, mental health matters. Young people
with FASD frequently have experienced early developmental trauma, and
often struggle with ongoing anxiety and depression.
RepMurt
- Murt Remarks On Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
State Rep. Tom
Murt comments about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and the dangers
women present to their unborn children by drinking alcohol while
pregnant, also stating that FASD is 100% preventable.
The
Florida Center For Early Childhood - 3 Major Ways Alcohol
Interferes with a Baby's Growth
FASD-related
disorders last a lifetime. An estimated 40,000 babies are born each
year with FASDs, which can result in birth defects, intellectual or
learning disabilities, behavioral problems and trouble learning life
skills.
AlcoholThinkAgain
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Television/Cinema
Commercial
Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorder (FASD) is the term used to describe the lifelong
physical and/or neurodevelopmental impairments that can result from
fetal alcohol exposure.
RESEARCH
Journal
of Vocational Rehabilitiation - Understanding employment
success in adults with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
Individuals with
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) often face employment-related
challenges due to cognitive, physical, and behavioural difficulties,
however there are adults with FASD who have positive employment
experiences.
University
of Delaware - THE IMPACT OF NEONATAL ALCOHOL EXPOSURE AND
VOLUNTARY EXERCISE ON CHOLINERGIC FIBER LENGTH AND CG2 VOLUME IN THE
RAT MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX
Prenatal alcohol
exposure is known to cause chronic behavioral impairment and
neurocognitive deficits diagnosed as Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
(FASD). With a prevalence of one in every twenty children affected by
prenatal alcohol exposure in the United States, FASD remains a
serious public health concern.
The
Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine - Effects
of gestational thiamine-deprivation and/or exposure to ethanol on
crucial offspring rat brain enzyme activities
Our findings
provide a preliminary characterization of important neurochemical
effects due to maternal exposure to EtOH and TDD during gestation
that might affect the offspring rat neurodevelopment, and that
characterization should be further explored in a brain
region-specific manner level as well as through the parallel
examination of changes in the offspring rat brain lipid composition.
BMC
health Services Research - Protocol for the Yapatjarrathati
project: a mixed-method implementation trial of a tiered assessment
process for identifying fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in a remote
Australian community
Co-designed with
the local community, integrated with cultural protocols, and based on
implementation science theories, the assessment and training process
from this project will have the potential to be scaled-up across
other remote locations and trialed in urban settings.
Europe
PMC - Asymmetry-index and orthodontic facial analysis of
children with foetal alcohol syndrome using 3D-facial scans.
Children with FAS
differ significantly from controls in vertical and sagittal facial
measurements. Profile analysis and measurement of vertical
proportions are easy to apply standard procedures in everyday
orthodontic practice and could be time-saving and objective means for
additional verification of FAS.
Journal
of Obstetrics and Gyneacology - The association of Prenatal
Alcohol Exposure on the Cognitive Abilities and Behaviour Profiles of
4‐year‐old children: a prospective cohort study
Low to moderate
PAE was not associated with cognitive processing or developmental
problems. Women who had many binge drinking episodes during pregnancy
were the most at risk for cognitive processing, neurocognitive and
behaviour problems in their children at 4 years of age.
Canadian
Journal of Nursing Research - Obstetrical Nurses’
Perspectives of Pregnant Women Who Use Illicit Substances and Their
Provision of Care: A Thematic Analysis
Obstetrical nurses
highlighted a number of conflicting views about caring for pregnant
women who use illicit substances. Key actions, such as establishing
professional support when nurses experience ethical distress or when
they are unable to provide meaningful care to patients, were
suggested.
Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research - Alcohol's
dysregulation of maternal‐fetal IL‐6 and p‐STAT3 is a function
of maternal iron status
These findings
suggest that alcohol‐driven stimulation of the IL‐6/JAK2/STAT3
pathway mediates the elevated hepcidin observed in the PAE dam and
fetus.
Neuroscience
and Biobehavioral Reviews - The Effects of Developmental
Alcohol Exposure on the Neurobiology of Spatial Processing
The consumption of
alcohol during gestation is detrimental to the developing central
nervous system.
European
Psychiatry - Family history of alcohol use disorder is
associated with brain structural and functional changes in healthy
first-degree relatives
Family history of
alcohol use disorder is linked to structural and functional
variations including brain regions involved in reward processes.
Midwifery
- Modifiable risk factors for stillbirth: a literature
review
A stillbirth is
defined as an infant born weighing 500grammes and/or more or at a
gestational age of 24 weeks who shows no signs of life. Having a
stillborn baby has a wide range of consequences that can affect
parents, family and the healthcare professionals involved.
Journal
of Substance Use - Lifestyle-related risk factors during
pregnancy: even low-to-moderate drinking during pregnancy increases
the risk for adolescent behavioral problems
Low-to-moderate
PAE is clearly linked to an increased risk of behavioral problems in
adolescent offspring.
BMC
Pediatrics - Maternal pre-pregnancy body mass index,
smoking in pregnancy, and alcohol intake in pregnancy in relation to
pubertal timing in the children
As correlations
between HD:SDS and the considered pubertal milestones were comparable
to those reported in the literature between age a peak height
velocity and the considered pubertal milestones, the validity of
HD:SDS seems acceptable.
International
journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - Multi-Service
Programs for Pregnant and Parenting Women with Substance Use
Concerns: Women’s Perspectives on Why They Seek Help and Their
Significant Changes
Findings
demonstrated that vulnerable, marginalized pregnant and parenting
women who are using substances will seek help when health and social
care services are configured in such a way as to take into
consideration and address their unique roles, responsibilities, and
realities.
Deviant
Behavior - Teen Pregnancy, Depression, and Substance Abuse:
The Conditioning Effect of Deviant Peers
General Strain
Theory (GST) suggests that individuals who experience strain are
pressured into criminal and deviant behavior. Consistent with GST,
the current study assesses the relationship between strain in the
form of teenage pregnancy and substance use behavior, specifically
alcohol problems and marijuana use.
JAIDS
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes - High
Rates of Biomarker-Confirmed Alcohol Use among Pregnant Women Living
with HIV in South Africa and Uganda
Alcohol use was
prevalent and under-reported among pregnant WLWH in South Africa and
Uganda, similar to non-pregnant participants, and associated with
depression.
Clinical
Practice - Impacts of alcohol use in pregnancy
Alcohol is
teratogenic and its ingestion during pregnancy can result in
miscarriage, stillbirth, prematurity, birth defects, and problems of
growth and development.
Drug
and Alcohol Dependence - Alcohol use and binge drinking
among U.S. men, pregnant and non-pregnant women ages 18-44: 2002 to
2017
Drinking during
pregnancy dropped sharply in the U.S. in the 1980s. More recent time
trends in adult drinking and binge drinking in men, non-pregnant and
pregnant women have not been directly compared.
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
Svenska
YLE (Sweden) - Hur gravida dricker är fortfarande en vit
fläck i finländsk alkoholforskning
Det går att
plocka fram grafer om hur mycket det dricks och vad som dricks i
varje region i vårt land, men det existerar inte en kartläggning av
hur gravida kvinnor dricker under de nio månaderna före barnet
föds.
FAS
Fundacja (Poland) - Międzynarodowa Konferencja Szkoleniowa
„Trafna diagnostyka FASD?
W
związku z obchodami 20-lecia Światowego Dnia FAS oraz Dnia
Świadomości FASD w dniu 09.09.2019r. Fundacja Fascynujący Świat
Dziecka zorganizowała Międzynarodową Konferencję Szkoleniową pt.
„Trafna
diagnostyka FASD? Jest na to sprawdzony sposób – Prawidłowo
dostosowana terapia kluczem do sukcesu”.
Osservatorio
Malattie Rare (Italy) - Sindrome feto-alcolica: oggi è il
FASD Awareness Day
In Italia,
l’associazione AIDEFAD è impegnata a promuovere una maggiore
informazione sulla patologia, per agevolare prevenzione e diagnosi
precoce
MDR
(Germany) - Alkohol in der Schwangerschaft - die
unterschätzte Gefahr
Kurzer Rausch,
langer Leidensweg: Alkohol in der Schwangerschaft. Etwa 13.000 Kinder
werden jährlich mit dem fetalen Alkoholsyndrom (FAS) geboren. Doch
eine Diagnose erhält nur jeder zehnte Betroffene – mit fatalen
Folgen.
OX.PL
- Portal Śląska Cieszyńskiego (Poland) - Rozpoczął się
rok FAS/FASD w powiecie cieszyńskim
9 września
obchodzony jest Światowy Dzień FAS. Ma na celu zwrócenie uwagi
społeczeństwa na to, jak niebezpieczne dla rozwoju płodu jest
spożywanie alkoholu przez kobiety w czasie ciąży.
Delo
(Slovenia) - Ne alkoholu med nosečnostjo!
Mednarodni dan
spektra fetalnih alkoholnih motenj ali kako v znamenju štirih
devetic opozoriti na trajne posledice pitja za nerojenega otroka.
Helsingin
Sanomat (Finland) – Elämän mittaiset jäljet
Annakaisa Koskisen
äiti joi ollessaan raskaana. Se vaikuttaa Koskisen elämään
edelleen.
Me
Naiset (Finland) - Mikolla, 38, on kysymys äidilleen:
”Miksi joit raskauden aikana niin paljon?”
Ymmärrän, että
en ymmärrä kaikkea, Mikko Haapanen sanoo. Juuri se tuntuu hänestä
vaikeimmalta. Mikko syntyi kehitysvammaisena, koska hänen biologinen
äitinsä käytti alkoholia raskausaikana.
B.T.
(Denmark) - Gigi blev hjerneskadet i sin mors mave: Jeg
bebrejder hende
»Jeg er ikke i
tvivl om, at min mor elskede mig. Men jeg bebrejder hende for at have
skadet mig.«
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