A pregnant woman was recently refused a drink at a pub in England and then asked to leave by staff who said they were protecting her unborn child.
Caroline Williams, 26, was with her husband and some friends at the Cricketer pub in Hove, East Sussex. "I was on a rare night out with some friends," Williams told the Daily Mail. "I had a pint of lager and a friend offered to get me another half--that was going to be my limit. He was refused service because it was for me and when I later took a sip from another friend's glass the assistant manageress asked me and my friends to leave."
This story might surprise some U.S. women. Here, we often point to the habits of European women who legendarily drink wine, eat raw-milk cheese, and gulp Guinness to improve breast milk production, as justification for our own choices in pregnancy. But actually more European countries are adopting (or at least trying to adopt) the American stance of abstinence. In 2007, the British government ruled against even occasional consumption during pregnancy; now American-style warning labels are slapped onto all alcohol bottles. Same thing happened in France. And in Ireland they're considering similar legislation and introducing a public awareness campaign against drinking during pregnancy.
Why the change in attitude? Mainly the countries were seeing increases in fetal alcohol syndrome. The National Organization for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome UK estimated that more than 6,000 children were born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder each year.
That said, in October 2008, a large-scale British study was published showing no link between having the occasional drink during pregnancy and behavioral problems in the child. And Europeans are still swilling much more wine than American women. Some 55 per cent of women in the UK admit to drinking alcohol while pregnant and 52 percent of French women indulge. In Ireland the number is even higher at an estimated 66 percent. In America, only 12 percent of pregnant women report any alcohol use.
Was the British pub right in kicking out pregnant Caroline Williams?
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1 comments:
what they write about European women who legendarily drink wine, is such bullshit, Europe is way better in healthy nutrition, organic nutrition while they still eat fries and burgers in Amerika!!!
and for sure pregnant european women know very well how to behave while pregnat!!!!!!!!wake up!!!!1!
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