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Article: Can drinking harm your unborn child?
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2002
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Byline: ALICE HART-DAVIS
Jordan blamed herself for her baby's blindness, but experts are divided on alcohol's effects during pregnancy
IT'S the natural reaction of any mother on finding that there is something wrong with her precious new baby.
When Katie Price, aka glamour model Jordan, found out that her baby Harvey, now nine weeks old, had been born blind, her first instinct was to blame herself - could it have been her hedonistic lifestyle that had caused her son's disability? She had continued nightclubbing during her pregnancy, and was reported to have been drinking alcohol when seven months pregnant.
The "What if ?" factor - ...