Comment by margalabargala

> How much alcohol can a pregnant person drink? (Not too much, obviously, but is a glass of wine a couple of different days in the third trimester okay? Probably, but it varies a lot deoending on which country you're in.)

It's important to differentiate a low individual risk for you, vs what that means to a whole population.

You will easily find someone willing to say "oh I had two glasses of wine a week while pregnant and my kid was fine".

If everyone started drinking 2 glasses of wine a week in the third trimester, FAS rates will increase, and mean IQ score will dip. Will they dip by a lot? Probably not, but definitely not zero. So of course anyone in a position to make a society-wide recommendation, recommends "no alcohol".

Individual parents may look at data and say, that's a risk they're willing to take.