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Here are some great Millennium Celebration ideas to keep your body and your child healthy. 37,000 children are born each year in the United States with Fetal Alcohol Effects. Don't let this wonderful holiday affect your child's future. All it takes is one night of too much alcohol!
Enjoy Teresa's 12 Days of Christmas

FAS is the largest cause
of mental retardation in USA
to understand FAS/E from the inside out get
The Best I Can Be:
Living With Fetal Alcohol Syndrome or Effects

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During any given day in the USA, about 10,662 babies will be born. 3,890,000/yr: US Census Bureau

HIV Awareness Has Helped Win
the Battle for HIV Babies

Incidence of HIV in babies during first year of life has decreased from 8.4 per 100,000 in 1992 to 5.1 per 100,000 in 1995. On the statistical comparison pages (today 10,000 babies were born), this would lower the number of babies born with HIV from 4 (old Center for Disease Control figures of 1,500 per year) to less than one per day, around 200 a year, compared to 2,000 a year in the early 1990's.

The incidence of FAS twenty times that of infantile HIV

3 Muscular Dystrophy babies born.. 1 in 3,200: Muscular Dystrophy Association	4 Spina Bifida babies born.. 3.2/10,000: Center for Disease Control and Prevention .
100 Alcohol Related Neurodevelopmental Disorder. FAE BABIES BORN! 1/100: Teratology 1997 Nov;56(5):317-26 which will probably never be diagnosed These babies may also have other alcohol related birth defects or impairments
>1 HIV infected babies born.. 200/yr: CDC Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 11/21/97 NOTE: These figures were 2000/year in the early 1990's Great Job Americans!	10 Down Syndrome babies born.. 1/1,000: Center for Disease Control	20 Fetal Alcohol Syndrome babies born. 19.5 per 10,000: Natl Org. of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,

For a more thorough listing of all current birth defects visit the
March of Dimes sites

Leading Categories of Birth Defects
Description of Leading Categories
On An Average Day

As noted by the Institute of Medicine's 1996 Report to Congress on FAS:
"These incidence figures are offered not as established facts
but to emphasize the magnitude of a problem that has
serious implications - for the individual and for society. "
From the Executive Summary of the IOM Report.

How hard can it be to quit drinking for 9 Months?
Check Teressa Kellerman's "Get Juiced" Campaign!
Make a PASS to score BIG time for the future.

Check out these beautiful baby pictures
http://www.thriveonline.com/health/pregnancy/calendar/

This message brought to you by

www.betterendings.org

Minnesota Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
P.O. Box 131911, Roseville, Minnesota 55113

and

FAS Community Resource Center
http://www.come-over.to/FASCRC

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