1. babylove Developed by Kentucky’s FASD Prevention Enhancement Site Lmnagle@bluegrass.org www.kyfasd.org

2. runs cross-country works part-time dated Daniel for 2 years doesn’t know she’s five weeks pregnant meet Tara.

3. …and her baby already has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. doesn’t know she’s five weeks pregnant

4. plays soccer dated Tara for 2 years plans to have his own business someday doesn’t know he’s about to become a dad meet Daniel.

5. …and his baby already has Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders. doesn’t know he’s about to become a dad

6. 82% of teenage pregnancies are unplanned

8. fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are caused when a woman drinks while she’s pregnant

11. i didn’t know i was pregnant a little bit won’t hurt the baby, right? everybody around me drinks people told me it was ok my mom drank when she was pregnant with me and i’m ok i can’t stop drinking

14. What Does Your Brain Do For You?What Does Your Brain Do For You? Makes a free-throw or stops a soccer goal Knows how to organize all the steps for a project Balances work and school schedules Looks ahead to predict consequences of decisions Remembers the words of a song that you haven’t heard in years Decides when it’s appropriate to be sarcastic, and when it isn’t Reminds you that there are different rules for different situations Lets you consider all options Reads body languages and cues that aren’t spoken

15. Alcohol During Pregnancy Can Create a Lifelong Brain That:....has trouble moving information from one situation to another...thinks in a disorganized way...has difficulty with time and money...forgets information...thinks like the brain of someone much younger...can’t read the emotions or body language of other people …uses poor judgment …responds slowly...can’t link cause and effect

17. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRQ0iGJ0zXI

19. an unborn baby’s blood alcohol concentration will be the same as mom’s, but for a longer period of time

20. an eight-week old unborn baby is about the size of a raspberry

21. how much alcohol do you think is safe?

22. every single baby reacts differently to alcohol. no one can predict how each baby will be affected.

23. according to research, there is no known safe amount of alcohol for the cells in an unborn baby’s developing brain. not a drop of anything.not beer. not wine.

26. alcohol affects whatever is growing at the time alcohol can harm: brain kidneys heart bones face ears eyes brain

27. according to research, there is no known safe time for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol. every single day the brain grows of the pregnancy

28. the good news: it’s never, ever too late to stop drinking during a pregnancy.

31. meet Alicia. at age 16, she has physical cravings for alcohol and goes through withdrawal if she doesn’t drink she never thought she’d get addicted – she only drank with her friends on the weekends she didn’t know that she had two strong biological risk factors for addiction: family history high tolerance

33. meet Megan. even though she just found out she’s pregnant, she’s too scared and embarrassed to tell anybody that she can’t stop drinking she wants to have a healthy baby and is trying to stop on her own but her body feels like it will die without alcohol

34. the good news: there is help out there.

39. smoking during pregnancy cuts off oxygen to the baby, making it harder for cells to grow. it’s a big deal.

40. she didn’t know that alcohol could affect her baby before she even knew she was pregnant. remember Tara?

41. what if he had said: “hey, listen, what if we accidentally got pregnant? we shouldn’t be drinking.”

42. what if her sister had said: “Tara, if you got pregnant, your drinking could hurt your baby even though you didn’t mean for it to happen.”

43. what if her best friend had said: “no one expects to get pregnant, but it happens. don’t make decisions now that you’ll regret forever.”

44. what if her teachers had said: “alcohol is the most damaging substance to a developing baby’s brain. your decisions matter today.”

45. remember Tara? she didn’t know that alcohol could affect her baby before she even knew she was pregnant…

46. remember Tara? …because no one ever told her.

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