Name: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders [Public Service Announcement]
Uploaded: 2025-11-25T18:04:59.000Z
Duration: 2 min 57 s
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Merely 22 days after conception, the heart starts beating.

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Nestled in the perfect cocoon designed over millions of years, an unborn child is effortlessly consuming all she needs from the person she is most connected to, the mother.

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At just 20 weeks old, the little one suddenly realizes that something feels wrong.

Technically, children aren't breathing yet at this point, but

they are practicing their first moves to be ready for their big day.

And it is this movement that gets interrupted.

Her heartbeat, sleep pattern and inner system are put out of sync.

Decades later, the little one would learn that on that day, her mother had two glasses of wine.

During the next 14 weeks of the pregnancy, both were often intoxicated, and

the baby girl experiences unstable sleep patterns that impact the healthy development of her brain.

When born, the baby girl is early and small.

Her mother is told that they were lucky she made it.

A few hours later, the baby is diagnosed with a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.

She has a small head, small eyes, a smooth philtrum and thin upper lip.

The doctor tells the mother that children with FASDA are likely to struggle with many of the following poor memory, sleep problems, difficulty paying attention, speech and language delays, low IQ and poor judgment skills difficulty with math, vision or hearing problems and adhd.

He further explains that mothers that drink while pregnant feed their child through the umbilical cord the same amount of alcohol that they consume themselves, with the difference that the child will be exposed to the alcoholic toxins up to 10 times longer.

Alcohol can cause mental and physical handicaps and reduce the chances that their children find meaningful work.

Children with fetal alcohol syndrome, the most severe form of the disorder, live on average only until age 34.

If you are pregnant, don't drink already.

Small amounts of alcohol can intoxicate your baby.

This public service announcement was brought to you by Mali, the app for the first 1000 days of life, from conception till age 2.