pregnancy, and drink almost as much as the mothers of children with PFAS in the first trimester. But overall, mothers of children with ARND cut down more in the middle and later stages of pregnancy, yet when they do drink, they binge heavily and report spacing out consumption throughout various days of the week. Fourth, mothers of the normal/control children who drank during pregnancy drink the least of any of the drinking mothers (about 50% less than the mothers of FASD children) and did not drink at all during the weekdays. Mothers of normal controls report cutting down on the drinking greatly in the second and third trimesters, even though when they drink they binge drink. Fifth, with only a few exceptions, average drinking during pregnancy for the mothers of FASD children form a spectrum from the heaviest sustained bingeing practiced by the mothers of the FAS children to the least drinking and fewest binges among mothers of the children without FASD.
