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Drink While Pregnant: a Wired Cola PSA

Karen "Tinybites" Hamilton is expecting! As makes sense for a food-blogger, she talks about a lot of the food-and-drink changes this has brought to her life.

And of course, there's the drinking thing. You're not supposed to drink while pregnant, right?

In this Very Special Episode of Wired Cola, we'd like to urge you to drink a little bit. Science is on your side.  

Key point from that page: moderate consumption, and we're talking 1-2 drinks/day here, has no measurably negative effect on your baby, and may be modestly better for their development.

The always-reliable (or at least in this case, impressively footnoted) Wikipedia article on the subject is straightforward: