(2/1/2012)

By Melinda Beck
The Wall Street Journal
January 24, 2012

In the sixth to 12th week of pregnancy, a fetus's bones, brain and central nervous system are forming. Buds blossom into arms and legs, and internal organs start to function. A face with eyelids, lips and other features appears. This is also the time when a mother's alcohol consumption poses the greatest risk of doing lifelong physical damage to her baby, according to a new study of nearly 1,000 women who drank at least once in their pregnancies.

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