Few people have doubts that alcohol and pregnancy are simply incompatible. But, despite this, there are people who claim that alcohol in small amounts to the child will not hurt. Consider how alcohol works in the first months of pregnancy for the development of the fetus. And also on the course of pregnancy itself.
The effects of alcohol in the first months of pregnancy
Alcohol in the early periods of an interesting situation is most often used by a woman when even she does not suspect that she is pregnant. But it is at the beginning of the pregnancy that alcohol brings most of the troubles. This is due to the fact that at the beginning of pregnancy all the internal organs of the baby are laid. In the first month of pregnancy, drinking can cause spontaneous miscarriage. In order to make sure of the danger of alcohol, consider what happens at this time with the embryo.
During the first week after conception, a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube moves into the uterine cavity. At the same time, a rather intensive division of the oocyte begins. In the uterus cavity enters the egg in the form of a cluster of cells. During the second week, the egg begins to penetrate into the wall of the uterus. At the same time, the branching shell begins to form - the chorion, which is necessary to fix the fetal egg in the uterine cavity. It is in the first two weeks after conception that the effect of alcohol affects pregnancy in this way. Either alcohol does not affect pregnancy at all, or causes spontaneous miscarriage.
It's no secret that a woman who wants to give birth to a child after drinking alcohol, not knowing that she is pregnant, after a lot of stress. If the pregnancy is preserved, then in the future it should be excluded from drinking alcohol completely.
Drinking alcohol at the 4th week of an interesting situation is very dangerous, since the process of organogenesis begins. Otherwise, the bookmark begins, as well as the formation of the child's internal organs. Getting into the female body, alcohol is intensely ingested and, of course, to the fetus. It's no secret that alcohol is a toxic substance that interferes with the normal development of the child.
Infringements which can be observed at the child, at the use of the mother of alcohol
The age of the fetus is of great importance during the period of toxic effects. Embryo infection in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, when laying organs, increases the risk of various anomalies in the development of the baby. Drinking alcohol in the first trimester of pregnancy can further lead to the following deviations in the child. This is the underdevelopment or lack of limbs, ugliness, fusion of the fingers, developmental malformations in the child of the genital organs, non-solidification of the hard palate, etc. More than 70% of the babies born to the mother who used alcohol during pregnancy have epilepsy, dementia and other various mental illness. In addition, children can be observed: enuresis, visual and hearing impairment, encephalopathy, hyperactivity syndrome, etc. The fact is that under the influence of alcohol in the initial stage of fetal development the nervous system suffers first of all in the first place.
The following manifestations (clinical) of alcoholic fetal syndrome are most common: disproportional development of adipose tissue, delay in physical development, muscle hypotension. Craniofacial anomalies (diminished head size) such as microcephaly, dysfunction of the nervous system, flatness of the middle of the face. Narrow red border of the lips, short incision of the eye, epicanthus, ptosis, defects in the development of the eye, strabismus. Also, heart defects, joint anomalies, cleft palate and upper lip.
Also, speaking about the influence of alcohol on the development of pregnancy, it should be noted that alcohol has an embryotoxic effect, the fetus is affected by substances such as, acetaldehyde and ethanol. The effect of such substances in pregnancy leads to a halt in the normal synthesis of DNA molecules and proteins that are in the embryo of the spinal cord and brain.
A woman who wants to give birth to a full-fledged and healthy baby should completely give up alcohol during pregnancy, because a healthy baby is the best thing that can happen in the life of parents.