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Disobedient Pregnant Women Should Drink More, Weigh Less |
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 Written by Katelyn Sack
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 |
Recent studies suggest that moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy has no adverse effects on children's cognitive and behavioral development. Rather, a few drinks a week in utero may actually reduce the incidence and severity of such problems, causing kids to sit back, relax, and jive nicely together.
Conversely, caffeine consumption during pregnancy appears to result in smaller, weaker offspring who stay up all night writing poetry and worrying about the spiritual condition of the world.
Another new study indicates overweight women tend to gain too much weight during pregnancy, while underweight women do not gain enough.
Merck hopes to develop a new designer drug, Momafault, to help pre-mothers lead normal, healthy, medically perfect lives so they don't ruin their future children's chances at success and keep causing the global economy to tank faster than an underweight pregnant woman with a pot of coffee and a few gin and tonics in her, by 2012.
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