Drinking alcohol while pregnant  3 risks of drinking alcohol
while pregnant    Eighty per cent of pregnant women in Australia
drink alcohol and ignore government guidelines to abstain from
drinking in case it harms unborn children, according to the
Medical Journal of Australia.  What's more, Australian medical
researchers found guidelines for pregnant women to have a low
alcohol intake or abstain from drinking altogether have little
effect on whether women drink during pregnancy.  "For women who
are pregnant or planning a pregnancy, not drinking is the safest
option," the National Health and Medical Research Council
website now says.  But government guidelines on drinking during
pregnancy have changed in the last decade, which may have left
some women confused.  In 2001, government guidelines changed to
tell pregnant women they could drink small quantities of alcohol
- less than six standard drinks per week, or less than two
drinks a day.But in 2009 guidelines changed again to recommend
abstinence. Researcher