{"id":295552,"date":"2026-02-13T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295552\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T06:28:09","slug":"alcohol-intake-by-pregnant-women-in-ireland-is-quite-low-new-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295552\/","title":{"rendered":"Alcohol intake by pregnant women in Ireland is quite low, new study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It was previously thought that up to 60pc of pregnant women were consuming alcohol\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The findings showed that alcohol consumption in early pregnancy is avoided. Stock image: Alamy\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/9351dde6-7cb0-438d-9c5f-d4071259602f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The findings showed that alcohol consumption in early pregnancy is avoided. Stock image: Alamy\/PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Alcohol intake during early pregnancy by women in Ireland has been found to be low, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Previous reports have indicated that between 20pc and 60pc of pregnant \u00adwomen in Ireland consume alcohol during pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was previously thought that up to 60pc of pregnant women were consuming alcohol The findings showed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4593,103,61,60,5762],"class_list":["post-295552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-eilish-oregan","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ucd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}