/blogentry/148248 mikeintexas's Blog: Wanna Be a Dad? en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator /blogentry/148248#c210415 /blogentry/148248#c210415 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 18:47:30 GMT mikeintexas <br />Too small in the hips, you see.

]]> mikeintexas /blogentry/148248#c210392 /blogentry/148248#c210392 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:31:46 GMT mikeintexas That baby will need to get off the bottle before HE tries to have kids.

]]> mikeintexas /blogentry/148248 /blogentry/148248 Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:31:05 GMT mikeintexas Stop drinking six months before conception.

Can alcohol affect sperm? Dads-to-be should stop drinking 6 months before conception, study finds

Alcohol consumption during pregnancy has long been linked to congenital defects and developmental problems in newborns. Now a new study has found a link between a baby's congenital heart defects and their prospective parents' drinking before conception

Compared to non-drinkers, fathers who drank during the three months before conception were 44% more likely to have babies born with congenital heart disease.

If the prospective dads were binge drinkers, which was defined as downing five or more drinks per session, there was a 52% higher likelihood their baby would have a congenital heart defect.

(read the rest of the article at above link)

Sobering news, no pun intended. Even though I'm no scientist, it makes sense. Alcohol IS, after all, technically a poison.

OTOH, I suspect a LOT of conception events are directly due to alcohol consumption.

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