Kudos to you (again) for a plug for common sense. Isn’t it amazing that we live in a society in which people go into a frenzy over a pregnant woman having an occasional glass of wine, yet, the same people think nothing if the same pregnant woman leaves the wine bar to go to an abortion clinic to…well, you know how that one ends. It’s baffling.

I agree that we shouldn’t believe that we can ever be in complete control of our children. Such an attitude, after all, only encourages the idea that when your kid misbehaves, YOU’RE automatically the one who failed, not the kid. Wrong!

However, I don’t see why alcohol shouldn’t be taken more seriously than it is. Any counselor on, say, drinking and driving will tell you that it’s untrue that “one little drink won’t hurt me,” because in reality, it makes it easier to take a second drink.

On top of that, we’ve all heard stories of couples who did everything right and still had babies with Down Syndrome or autism anyway. So why push your luck in any other prenatal sense?