Sentence examples for harm to the foetus from inspiring English sources
But it adds that it does no harm to the foetus if women drink no more than one or two units once or twice a week (a small glass of wine is 1.5 units).
However, research studies do suggest that drinking above the recommended one to two units, once or twice per week increases risk of harm to the foetus, newborn and child.
Collins questioned whether "a pregnant mother who eats unpasteurised cheese or a soft boiled egg knowing there is a risk that it could give rise to a risk of harm to the foetus" might also find herself accused of a crime.
Standard imaging techniques need to be adapted to reduce harm to the foetus from X-rays because of their teratogenic and carcinogenic potential.
A notable shift has been identified in representations of abortion-related issues from a focus on women's reproductive rights and the risks of illegal abortions in the 1960s and 1970s, to the question of harm to the foetus from the 1980s onwards (Singer and Endreny 1987).
WHO evaluated publicly available and confidential reports of more than 6000 women that had inadvertently taken mebendazole or albendazole during pregnancy and concluded that the use of anthelminthic drugs during pregnancy does not increase the risk of harm to the foetus.
Numeric rating scales ranging from 0 (not harmful for the foetus) to 10 (very harmful to the foetus) were utilised.
It was verified by several participants that alcohol consumption in the first trimester would cause the most harm, and it was generally accepted by all participants that small amounts of alcohol, such as one or two glasses throughout the whole of pregnancy would not be harmful to the foetus.
Whilst the levels of alcohol-related harm including attributable hospital admission, mortality and crime have been increasing in recent years [ 11], no such increases were seen in any of the three diagnoses discussed here: FAS (Q86.0), maternal care for (suspected) damage to the foetus from alcohol (ICD10: or5.4) or foetus and newborn were affected by maternal use of alcohol.
