{"id":4359,"date":"2025-11-10T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/drinking-when-youre-pregnant-thats-gammon\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T02:00:50","slug":"drinking-when-youre-pregnant-thats-gammon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/drinking-when-youre-pregnant-thats-gammon\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking when you\u2019re pregnant? That\u2019s gammon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-4358\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cammon.jpg\" alt=\"cammon\" width=\"450\" height=\"243\" style=\"margin-bottom: 30px; margin-left: 30px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cammon.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cammon-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cammon-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cammon-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Alcohol is a depressant<\/strong>. This means that it slows down the messages travelling between the brain and body&nbsp;which&nbsp;affects the way you think,&nbsp;feel&nbsp;and behave.&nbsp;<strong>Alcohol is&nbsp;a very strong&nbsp;drug,&nbsp;and it can cause extreme harm to our health<\/strong>.&nbsp;Large&nbsp;quantities&nbsp;of&nbsp;alcohol are&nbsp;poisonous&nbsp;but even small amounts are very&nbsp;dangerous for developing brains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If you are planning&nbsp;on having&nbsp;a baby&nbsp;or&nbsp;during pregnancy&nbsp;the&nbsp;safest&nbsp;option is to drink no alcohol at all.<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;(<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caac.org.au\/nosafedrinkingforbub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Safe Drinking for Bub &#8211; Central Australian Aboriginal Congress<\/a><\/strong><strong>)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alcohol is a depressant. This means that it slows down the messages travelling between the brain and body&nbsp;which&nbsp;affects the way you think,&nbsp;feel&nbsp;and behave.&nbsp;Alcohol is&nbsp;a very strong&nbsp;drug,&nbsp;and it can cause extreme harm to our health.&nbsp;Large&nbsp;quantities&nbsp;of&nbsp;alcohol are&nbsp;poisonous&nbsp;but even small amounts are very&nbsp;dangerous for developing brains.&nbsp; If you are planning&nbsp;on having&nbsp;a baby&nbsp;or&nbsp;during pregnancy&nbsp;the&nbsp;safest&nbsp;option is to drink no alcohol [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fasd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dalgarnoinstitute.org.au\/wp_site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}