Giving up alcohol was easy for South Australian mother-of-two Carly Keene. “You want to do everything you can to prevent harm to your unborn child,” Keene said. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: SA government campaigns to stop mums-to-be drinking during pregnancy.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “As soon as my husband and I started trying, I stopped drinking alcohol. “I was seeing my GP and so I did let her know that my husband and I were trying to get pregnant, so she just said, if I can stop drinking alcohol (that would be best). “Obviously we don’t want the unborn child to consume alcohol.
” However, Keene said there were plenty who tried to tempt her with a tipple. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there around alcohol, pregnancy and breastfeeding, many people telling me it’s OK to have a drink,” Keene said. “Especially my neighbours who are in their 80s (and) said, ‘I drank all throughout my pregnancy, and my children are OK’.
“I get that message a lot out in the community.” SA Health Minister Chris Picton said there was still work to do to get the message out to the community. “We need to get the message through, as much as possible, that there’s no safe amount of alcohol,” Picton said.
“We have seen improvements in decades with this, and the message has been getting through, but not quite enough. “There are some people who think just a little bit is fine, but all the research shows that that’s not the case. “This ca.