It is not necessary every time that fetal alcohol syndrome or FAS will occur in babies when their mothers take alcohol but doctors are unable to research over how much amount of alcohol can be taken as safe at the of pregnancy. The recommendations of top surgeons and pregnancy cases experts till present time are not to take any amount of alcohol at time of pregnancy as a measure for health of infant.

Alcohol can be passed through placenta barrier which means directly passing to unborn after intake and this alcohol can stunt fetal weight or growth. It is also possible through alcohol drinking that distinctive facial stigmata created. Brain structures and neurons are also damage in fetal alcohol syndrome. The current survey report in USA shows that about 10 to 15% women have been reported to use alcohol during pregnancy and around 30% of women had use alcohol at some point of their pregnancy period.

The main damage which can be caused using alcohol is on the central nervous system and it is normally permanent (cannot be treated) and this can often create functional disabilities in brain like bad memory, attention deficits, impetuous behavior and some secondary functional disabilities are also seen in FAS patients like mental health problems or drug addiction. The risks of brain damage can increases in whole time of pregnancy.

Western world is facing this problem really much as alcohol is drunk by people more in those regions. In United States and Europe, an estimate shows that one baby is medically facing fetal alcohol syndrome in every hundred children and this ratio is increasing. The government and medical teams are working hard to get rid of this problem and using methods to aware pregnant women to have safe and healthy children.