Pregnant women can drink the odd glass of wine without risking harming the intelligence of their child or causing behavioural problems, according to a study that challenges NHS advice.
Drinking up to two units a week was found to have no connection to developmental problems in a study of 10,000 British children that will offer some respite to mothers-to-be. “Our results suggest that there isn’t any harm from these low levels of alcohol,” said Yvonne Kelly, of University College London, who led the study.
While heavy drinking in pregnancy has long been known to cause serious problems in unborn babies, evidence involving light drinking has been hotly contested. The latest research used data from the millennium cohort study, who at the age of 7