Researchers at UCL tested the abilities of 10,534 UK seven-year-olds born in 2000-2002 from mothers who drank varying amounts of alcohol during their pregnancy. They collated data from the Millennium Cohort Study to assess whether light drinking (up to two units a week) in pregnancy was linked to unfavourable developmental outcomes.
The sample group was made up of mothers who never drank (12.7 per cent), mothers who drink alcohol but did not drink during pregnancy (57.1 per cent), light drinkers during pregnancy (23.1 per cent) and mothers who drank more during pregnancy (7.2 per cent). They focused on the results from mothers who abstained from alcohol completely or were light drinkers during pregnancy.
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