Dads-to-be should stop drinking 6 months before conception for baby’s heart health, study says
Study Says Dads Should Stop Drinking 6 Months Before Conception To Protect Baby If dads want to do everything possible to help their baby, they should stop drinking long before…
STRASBOURG, FRANCE – MAY 18: Italian students from the Primo Levi Technical Institute of Vignola in the Modena Province, toast with glasses of beer in a pub during a school trip to Strasbourg, France to visit the European Parliament on May 18, 2004. School trips can be a sort of initiation trip for teenagers, where they are introduced for the first time to alcohol and drugs. Many times they don’t sleep for the whole trip. The trips often allow the students to get to know each other better. If one is considered “different” than the group, it can be a nightmare experience for the teenager. Mainly the teenagers are only interested in clubs, shopping and having a pizza instead of the cultural aspects of the school trip. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)
Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty ImagesStudy Says Dads Should Stop Drinking 6 Months Before Conception To Protect Baby
If dads want to do everything possible to help their baby, they should stop drinking long before the child has been conceived.
A new study suggests that men should not drink 6 months prior to a baby's conception in order to decrease the likelihood of congenital heart defects in the child.
Fathers who drank 3 months prior to conception were 44 percent more likely to have babies with heart defects. Binge drinking men were 52 percent more likely to have children with congenital heart disease.
The study says men should not drink 6 months before conception and women shouldn't drink a year before getting pregnant in order to lower the baby's heart risks.
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