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Light drinking while pregnant could lower baby's IQ

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Bad news for moms-to-be: Drinking even a few alcoholic beverages per week during pregnancy could lower a baby's IQ by a few points, a new study has found. The findings, published Nov. 14 in the journal PLoS ONE, also suggest that women whose bodies  process alcohol slowly  are at greater risk of harming their baby's brain development. "This is good evidence to implicate  moderate drinking during pregnancy  having an effect on childhood IQ at age 8," said study co-author Ron Gray, an epidemiologist at the University of Oxford. "Some women are going to be genetically more vulnerable or resilient than others to the effects of alcohol on the fetus, but we don't know who those people are." While heavy drinking during pregnancy can  decrease learning even in utero, past studies on light drinking during pregnancy have been all over the map.

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