Fertile women who drink alcohol frequently and have unprotected sex are at risk for having an alcohol-exposed pregnancy. Any woman with an unplanned pregnancy could expose her unborn child to alcohol before she knows she is pregnant. The incidence of alcohol-exposed pregnancies can be reduced if women at risk reduce their alcohol consumption or postpone pregnancy until their problem drinking is resolved. Unintended pregnancy in the United States.
Alcohol use prior to pregnancy recognition.
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