If you could be pregnant stop drinking alcohol
Drinking alcohol at any stage of pregnacy could hurt your baby. To learn more about the risk of drinking alcohol during pregrnancy, check out the video created by the Counties Manukau District Health Board.
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Tapu whilst hapu
The importance of not drinking while trying to conceive or during pregnancy was the main messages of the Tairawhiti Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) poster competition.
Read moreFASD articles and websites
The Minister of Health put out an FASD Awareness Day Press Release
The Ministry of Health launched a new FASD website
The Weekend Sun article written by their Assistant Editor Cayla-Fay Euinton based on her personal experience of having a younger brother with FASD. Red shoes and conversing about FASD
NOFAS Video of Dr. Tony Dunn on the Ob-gyn's Role in Preventing FASD
NOFAS produced this short video with Dr. Tony Dunn, an FASD Champion with ACOG, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Dr. Dunn talks about the importance of screening pregnant women for alcohol use, and points out that alcohol, out of all the substances of abuse (including opioids) is the most damaging for the developing baby.
FASD Factsheet
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