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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Special To The Pool The family and friends of alcohol ics suffer from the emotional tur moil surrounding the disease but are not plagued by the physical abuse of aocoholism. However, there is ope unfortunate group that cannot will ingly escape the physical damage inflicted by alcoholism: the unborn children of women who drink during pregnancy. The developing infants suffer from the effects of alcoholism that sometimes include irreversible birth defects. A mother-to-be who drinks during pregnancy also risks having a stillborn birth. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) has been recognized as one of the three major causes of birth de fects and accompanying mental re tardation in the United States, according to William Hutchinson of Project First Step at the Caswell Center in Kinston. Project First Step is a two-year-old project that re ceives funding to study Fetal Al cohol Syndrome in North Carolina. Part of the work involves increased Sarah Stevenson V....Career profiled Charlotte Women Share Success Stories At Seminar Two successful Charlotte women will share their success stories with other women during a Tuesday, May 14, luncheon seminar at the Radis son Plaza Hotel. The career profiles of Sarah Ste venson, a member of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education, and Bonnie Widenhouse, president of Touchberry and Associates realtors, will be featured during the ■Professional Development for Wo •pien luncheon seminar. The seminar begins with a coffee and tea mixer at 11:30 a.m., fol lowed by luncheon at 11:45 a.m., the program at 12:15 p.m. and a ques tion and answer period at 12:45 p.m. The seminar costs $8.25 and reser vations must be made 24 hours in advance. The next and final seminar in the series will be “Breaking Out and Into Sales,” a June 4 discussion by Ed Bennett, sales manager for Eastern Airlines. This is the third year the series has been sponsored by the Meck lenburg County Women’s Commis sion and the Women’s Career Cen ter at Central Piedmont Communi ty College have offered the pro gram. For more information or for re servations, contact Carol Jordan at 373-6644. ■ Fifth in series screening for FAS and providing information and referral for the 32 eastern North Carolina counties. “It has been estimated that up to four out of every 1,000 births in the United States are affected by alco hol," he said. “We think that North Carolina's rate is at least equal to that and maybe higher.” Alcohol consumption affects the fetus by slowing the growth of developing cells and robbing the body of protein and vitamins that it desperately needs, Hutchinson said. In the ftill blown fetal alcohol syndrome infante have three or more abnormalities, including facial distortions, growth deficiencies, un sightly birth marks, and heart and kidney defects. Drinking during pregnancy can also cause a child to be nervous and jumpy, poorly coordinated, and of below normal height. He said that the North Carolina Department of Human Resources’ Council on Developmental Disabi lities has made the reduction in the frequency of fetal alcohol syndrome . the number one priority of Its Pre vention Task Force. The task force is made up of a wide range of health care professionals across North Carolina. . The Council on Developmental Disabilities currently is funding two projects in North Carolina to de velop more public awareness about the dangers of FAS. One of these is Project First Step at Caswell Center Kinston. The other, the Comprehensive Fetal Alcohol Syn drome Project at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston Salem, has established a toll-free telephone hotline service. People may call from anywhere in the state at 1-800-532-6302 “This problem has been around for a long time,’’ he said. “How ever, only in the past 10 years has it come to the medical community’s attention as a distinct syndrome and cause of birth defects.” Hutchinson stressed that it is im portant for women not to drink if they are even thinking about having a child. ‘‘There is really no safe amount of alcohol for a pregnant woman to drink,” he said. “We recommend abstaining both before, and during pregnancy because so much of the damage occurs in the first two months of pregnancy, when women don't realize that they are pregnant." P ' Ty Grove Sponsors Plant Sale On Friday, May 10, and Saturday, May 11, the Hickory Grove Lions Club will sponsor a Mother’s Day Plant and Flower Sale, beginning at 9a.m: The event, which will be held to support community service projects of the Hickory Grove Lions Club, . will take place in the Eastland Mall parking lot, near the intersection of Central Avenue and Albemarle Rd. For more information, call Richard Speight at 537-2242. SUBSCRIBE TO THE POST ---__ GIVE YOURSELF A SPRINGBREAK I Carletta Black, an 11th grader at North Mecklenburg, doesn't carry "Teddy" to school every day, but she thought just this one time wouldn't matter. (Photo By Bryon Cooper) With the end of school Just around the corner and exams coming up, junior Christena Arrington makes sure she will be ready. She uses her time wisely in the North Mecklenburg Senior High School Library. In addition to studying, Miss Arrington also enjoys modeling. 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