Fetal Drug & Alcohol Syndrome

Damaged Angels: An Adoptive Mother¿s Struggle to Understand the Tragic Toll of Alcohol in Pregnancy

The Best I Can Be: Living with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome-Effects

A young teen with Fetal Alcohol Effects challenges the world to peer inside her life and brain. Through her own writings the reader is taken on a life changing journey that will impact their thinking about how to help and understand children with brain damage due to Fetal Alcohol.

Our FAScinating Journey: Keys to Brain Potential Along the Path of Prenatal Brain Injury, Second Edition

Our FAScinating Journey will introduce readers to another winding path in working with prenatally exposed children. Jodee illuminates this path with lights that shine the hope of possibilities for these special kids. On your journey through these pages you will: • Discover creative approaches in reaching and loving children with attachment issues. • Understand how alcohol affects the growing brains of children. • Become familiar with brain terminology. • Uncover ideas to help a child nutritionally. • Wade through school and behavior issues with tears, laughter and strategies you may not have tried. • Meet professionals who have helped the Kulp family help Liz grow. • Loose yourself in a myriad of ideas within the appendix. • Smile as you get to know Liz, a very real teen who is determined to be the best she can be inspite of FASD. Our FAScinating Journey: The Best We Can Be, Keys to Brain Potential Along the Path of Prenatal Brain Injury is written for families, professionals and the community. It's goal is to open the door to possibilities for our citizens who have sustained brain injury due to toxins in the womb. While this is Liz Kulp's story, our hope is to open doors for you and your child. We want to help your family become strong and united rather the divided and fall. We want to provide your child "a chance to grow!"

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: A Guide for Families and Communities

Brookes. Univ. of Washington, Seattle. Text on the issues of alcohol related problems for parents, physicians, psychologists, social workers, and students of these professions. Covers diagnosis, physical and behavioral manifestations, education, employment, advocacy, and public policy. Softcover.

The Broken Cord: A Family's Ongoing Struggle With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

A generation has passed since a physician first noticed that women who drank heavily while pregnant gave birth to underweight infants with disturbing tell-tale characteristics. Women whose own mothers enjoyed martinis while pregnant now lost sleep over a bowl of rum raisin ice cream. In Message in a Bottle, Janet Golden charts the course of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) through the courts, media, medical establishment, and public imagination.

Long considered harmless during pregnancy (doctors even administered it intravenously during labor), alcohol, when consumed by pregnant women, increasingly appeared to be a potent teratogen and a pressing public health concern. Some clinicians recommended that women simply moderate alcohol consumption; others, however, claimed that there was no demonstrably safe level for a developing fetus, and called for complete abstinence. Even as the diagnosis gained acceptance and labels appeared on alcoholic beverages warning pregnant women of the danger, FAS began to be de-medicalized in some settings. More and more, FAS emerged in court cases as a viable defense for people charged with serious, even capital, crimes and their claims were rejected.

Golden argues that the reaction to FAS was shaped by the struggle over women's relatively new abortion rights and the escalating media frenzy over "crack" babies. It was increasingly used as evidence of the moral decay found within marginalized communities--from inner-city neighborhoods to Indian reservations. With each reframing, FAS became a currency traded by politicians and political commentators, lawyers, public health professionals, and advocates for underrepresented minorities, each pursuing separate aims.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (Diseases and Disorders)

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome is a leading cause of mental retardation and birth defects. Associated with various physical and neurological disorders, FAS is caused by alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Though it is a lifelong disorder, this book explores living with the effects of the syndrome and ways to combat it. (20051001)

The Effects of Maternal Alcohol and Drug Abuse on the Newborn: Advances in Alcohol and Substance Abuse : Numbers 3/4

The most damaging effects of psychotropic drug use during pregnancy occur not in the mother, who makes an informed choice to continue drug use, but in the newborn who becomes a passive victim. Drug abuse and alcoholism specialists present the latest findings on the effects on the newborn of mothers’use of illicit drugs during pregnancy. These experts specifically address the perinatal, neonatal, and subsequent developmental effects. Physicians, nurse practitioners, and other professionals with direct patient contact can use the valuable information in this volume to enhance their efforts of warning pregnant women of the risks inherent in the consumption of mood-altering drugs, not only for her own health, but for better chances of a successful pregnancy and a healthy baby.

Conceiving Risk, Bearing Responsibility: Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and the Diagnosis of Moral Disorder

"An extraordinarily lucid and well-balanced analysis. Using the tools of history, epidemiology, and sociology, Armstrong has made the social construction of fetal alcohol syndrome a site for illuminating research -- and not a one-dimensional polemical slogan. This accessible book should be of interest to anyone interested in the formation and implementation of social policy -- as well as historians of medicine and gender." -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Harvard University

Children With Prenatal Drug Exposure