Australia celebrates baby boom  With some 40,000 babies born in
the U.S. struggling with FASD, there’s no debate on maternal
drinking during pregnancy. (Ian Waldie, Getty Images)  The issue
of drinking during pregnancy is one that just refuses to go
away. It is believed that nearly 1 in 3 women imbibe while
pregnant and the American Academy of Pediatrics recently issued
a recommendation that every child be screened for Fetal Alcohol
Spectrum Disorders. FASD describes the range of effects in the
offspring of women who drink alcohol while pregnant.  For more
on this subject, we talked to Tom Donaldson, president of NOFAS,
a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy organization. He will be the
keynote speaker Friday at the Illinois Conference on FASD at the
College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn. For more information, go to or
call 815-462-4273.  Q: The theme of the conference is 'The Other
Spectrum' disorder. Why is there such awareness about autism but
not FASD, which affects about 40,000 babies born in the U.S.
each year?  T