{"id":37780,"date":"2013-08-13T07:22:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T12:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37780"},"modified":"2013-08-13T08:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T13:25:37","slug":"and-in-pediatric-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37780","title":{"rendered":"And In Pediatric News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not sure this news <\/a>would have helped my kids’ mother twenty-odd years ago – but I’d have enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

An economist looks at the studies linking alcohol and coffee to birth problems, and finds less there than meets most OB\/GYNs’ eyes:<\/p>\n

One big worry about drinking during pregnancy is that it will result in child behavior problems later. One of the best studies of this issue was published in 2010 in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. What makes it a reliable study? The sample group was large (3,000 women), and the researchers collected information about maternal drinking during pregnancy\u2014not afterward. The study also followed the children of these women through the age of 14 and looked at behavior problems starting at age 2.<\/p>\n

The other thing I liked about this study was that it was run in Australia, where recommendations on drinking during pregnancy are more lax than in the U.S. Because the rules are more permissive, Australian women who drink occasionally aren’t necessarily the kind of women who go against medical advice; it’s more likely that differences in drinking levels there are just random variation. Drinkers in the study were classified in five groups: no alcohol, occasional drinking (up to one drink a week), light drinking (2-6 drinks a week) and moderate drinking (7-10 drinks a week).<\/p>\n

The researchers compared the mothers’ drinking level at 18 weeks of pregnancy with the children’s behavior issues at age 2. They found that 11% of the children whose mothers did not drink during pregnancy had behavior problems\u2014versus 9% of the children of light drinkers and 11% of the children of moderate drinkers. (Nearly 14% of 2-year-olds whose mothers occasionally drank had behavior problems, but the difference is small and, statistically, could have occurred by chance.) The results were very similar for older kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is much, much more.\u00a0 Read it, and tell a pregnant friend…<\/p>\n

…and even if you don’t have one of those, there’s a lot in there about how to read scientific studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not sure this news would have helped my kids’ mother twenty-odd years ago – but I’d have enjoyed it. An economist looks at the studies linking alcohol and coffee to birth problems, and finds less there than meets most OB\/GYNs’ eyes: One big worry about drinking during pregnancy is that it will result in child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37780"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37780\/revisions\/37783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}