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Drinking and Your Pregnancy

When You Are Pregnant...
Drinking Can Hurt Your Baby

When you are pregnant, your baby grows inside you. Everything you eat and drink while you are pregnant affects your baby. If you drink alcohol, it can hurt your baby's growth. Your baby may have physical and behavioral problems that can last for the rest of his or her life. Children born with the most serious problems caused by alcohol have fetal alcohol syndrome.

Folic Acid Awareness Week

January 7–13 is Folic Acid Awareness Week. CDC urges every woman who could become pregnant to get 400 micrograms (400 mcg) of folic acid every day.

The B vitamin folic acid helps prevent birth defects. If a woman has enough folic acid in her body before and while she is pregnant, her baby is less likely to have a major birth defect of the brain or spine.

Women Need 400 Micrograms of Folic Acid Every Day

21 amazing facts about your pregnant body

What's going on during pregnancy and how to help your body do its job

Your baby grows from the size of a pinhead to a 7/8Ib boy or girl in just 40 weeks. Your body's built to cope, but it helps to understand the changes it goes through. We look at 21 amazing ways in which your body changes and suggest ways to help you through the whole nine months.