There is no safe amount of alcohol a woman can drink during pregnancy. Alcohol can cause lifelong physical and behavioral problems in children, including fetal alcohol syndrome. FAS is a serious condition in which children can be born with mental disorders and may have deformations mainly on the face. When you consume alcohol during pregnancy, your baby does too, because the alcohol passes freely across the placenta to your baby. If you choose to drink alcohol during pregnancy, you will increase the risk of your baby being born with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). Fetal alcohol syndrome is a baby condition resulting from exposure to alcohol during the mother's pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome causes brain damage and growth problems. The problems caused by fetal alcohol syndrome vary from child to child, but the defects caused by fetal alcohol syndrome do