All women who are trying to get pregnant should learn that the adverse reproductive effects of alcohol range from infertility and increased risk for spontaneous abortion to impaired fetal growth and development. Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are also provably associated with hypothalmic-pituitary-ovarian dysfunction resulting in amenorrhea (absence of menses), anovulation (lack of ovulation), luteal phase defect (abnormal development of the endometrial lining) and hyperprolactinemia. Drinking alcohol puts you and your baby at risk for a miscarriage, pre-term birth, stillbirth, and other serious effects.
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