I became pregnant while on a two-week European visit in 1993, during which I enjoyed some of the best beer (in Prague) I'll ever have.
A few weeks later, when I learned I was pregnant, I stopping drinking alcohol, took my folic acid, upped my calcium, etc., and had a perfect baby girl right some eigth months later, right on her due date.
So Sara, my advice to you would be: Keep Drinking Liberally until such time when and if you decide to have a baby. You can stop soon enough after the test turns blue.
One other thing ... I wonder if the US has one of the highest rates of infant mortality among developed countries because our health care insurance system sucks and many women delay prenatal care once they learn they're pregnant because they can't afford to visit the doctor.
Women in most other developed countries have universal health care. But gee, that would mean giving high priority to people who are already born.
After reading the actual data report, it appears that it is all about post-birth deaths, which may or may not have anything to do with pre-natal maternity health.
Doesn't it strike anyone as odd that we're the richest nation in the world with the most expensive health care, and where the vast majority of the wealth is being held by only a few, that leaves the disparity of class larger and larger as time goes on. As our health care gets more expensive, sure, you're going to see increases in, not only infant mortality, but general civilian mortality as well.
Of course, thats not just a single issue, so it's not as important as securing the womb for cellular Americans.
Yeah, Binky, I'm going to re-address this issue - but I kind of have a job I should be doing, so it'll have to wait.
Sorry Sara, I wasn't being critical of you and your handling of this issue, I was being critical of those that are unable to deal with complex issues that the implications of change would have ramnifications across multiple derivatives.
Conservatives tend to treat the world so black and white, where each issue is it's own microcosm of input/output without ever considering that by tampering with the fabric of one issue, another issue has to redress itself, and without supervision, sometimes those other issues don't get the best supervision.
Ah, I'm being vague, but if you'd like to discuss this more, I'm all up for it.
i think it's important to recognize this as part of the anti-sex agenda: if we can position the woman as 'a future mother' rather than 'a person in herself' then we have already made tremendous ground in revolutionizing sexual morality. the image of an empowered, liberated woman at a sex party is a victory of feminism; the image of an irresponsible, soon-to-be-mother at a sex party is one of criminal and moral negligence. clearly abstaining from sexual risks comes far higher on the pre-pregnant agenda than taking folic acid supplements - this is a mechanism of vaginal domestication.
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