ME Whelan Online Writing And Notes: Can Alcohol Use Of The Father Affect An Unborn Baby?

Friday, May 29, 2015

Can Alcohol Use Of The Father Affect An Unborn Baby?

February 25, 2014 After running into a post about potential damage to unborn babies, and whether their father's alcohol use may play some role; I thought I'd write this post with some basic information that anyone interested in this subject may find easily readable - but also, enough to suggest that future fathers may want to be careful about their habits when it comes to alcohol use or use of any substance that has the potential of affecting the health of sperm, particularly when there are plans to start a family.

Here's the post that was the inspiration for this one:

www.bubblews.com/news/2445818-whose-dna-matters

Because sperm are not like eggs, in that eggs don't have the high risk of mutation with every cell division that sperm do. All the eggs a woman will ever have are formed by the time she, herself, is born. New sperm, on the other hand, are being created all the time - and with that comes cell division and the potential for mutation.

The links below provide more information that relates to toxic substances and/or alcohol use in fathers-to-be or "soon-to-be-fathers-to-be".

.www.anuvia.org/uploads/FAS%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

www.beliefnet.com/columnists/doinglifetogether/2014/02/does-fathers-drinking-impact-his-unborn-child.html

www.parenting.com/article/toxic-future-fathers?page=0,1

www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/down-syndrome/basics/causes/CON-20020948

www.marchofdimes.com/baby/identifying-the-causes-of-birth-defects.aspx

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Note I

As I continue to reorganize, trim down, consolidate, further develop, and/or otherwise work on any number of my own blogs/sites, there may be the occasional "No Page Exists" message on this blog. That's temporary and not something I can avoid at this stage in my reorganizing "project".

I've got my Google+ profile settings so that all but this blog and a couple of other things are hidden from the public. Because of that, but because I don't particularly want to keep some of my writing a big secret, I'm including a few links that will get anyone who may be at all interested to a page that is far less of an apparent dead end than my Google profile is right at this time. Here's one link:

ME Whelan Online

In order to keep this "explanatory note" relatively brief, I'll write a post (February 21, 2016) to further make it clear what I'm doing with this blog. My plan is to revise and/or delete this note in the very near future, when it no longer seems necessary to include it (or parts of it).

Because I've transitioned from having once used a pen-name to (in more recent times) using my real name, I'm also including a link to my "pen-name blog".

That page is "The Lisa H. Warren Blog"

"The Writing-Reorganizing Project Continues" is the title of the February 21, 2016 post, to which I referred above.

Note II

What's On This Blog

This blog, as its title suggests, is a collection of online writing and random notes/thoughts of its author. Since material posted on or before February 21, 2016 has been imported from a number of my other sites/blogs there's a little bit of clean-up that still needs to be done on those posts, particularly with regard to some formatting issues. I'll be working on improving the presentation of the older posts. There won't (or at least shouldn't) be any issues with material posted on or after the date mentioned here.

Note III

The following is a transfer from another one of my blogs/sites. It appears more attractively presented elsewhere, but I've chosen not to link to that because a) I don't want this blog to be a "dreaded" "doorway page", and b) I'm trying to "bury" (without completely deleting, at least for now) some of the sites where posts already appear. It know there are easier, more automated, ways to transfer material, but with a large variety and number of different types of material to be transferred, I've found that in some instances "more automated" means "further, even if relatively minor, complicating things". In other words, I have a real online mess on my hands. I don't want more of the same, which, for my purposes/aims, often means limiting the "automating".

For now, I'll mark transfer posts as such. (Oh, and way at the bottom of the blog there's a link to the latest incarnation of an old blog. The link is there for my own convenience as I work on things here Links on this sidebar are old stuff. I'll do something with links to new stuff some other time.)

OTHER WRITING

"Other Writing" is a post title (and label) I've used on two posts ("Other Writing A" and "Other Writing B") with links to a big mix of (what else) other writing I have that falls under the category of "free time" or "casual" online. There's also a third post related to other writing, and that describes what much of that "other writing" is and why I included the other-writing-related posts, all of which are dated February 24, 2016.

(In a nutshell, I want those links available on here but don't want to highlight them.)

Also, see March 2, 2016 post " -
A Note About...
Posts/OtherContent"..."

ABOUT 'WORDCRAFTER"

If you've arrived here via my HubPages "WordCrafter09" profile or from any of my pen-name pages here's a link to a blog that I set up as I was making the transition from a long-time, well established, pen-name to using my own name. Until very recently I've linked from my "WordCrafter09" profile to the blog, but since I've made substantial progress with the transition I decided to de-emphasize that blog (while still making a link to it available - at least for awhile longer).

It's not so much "blog" as it is part dumping ground and part explanation. In any case, here's the link (for now, anyway...):

WordCrafter09

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