Abject and pregnant: how alcohol numbs the pain … at a terrible price | Kate Hodal

More than a tenth of children in South Africa have foetal alcohol syndrome. Now volunteer mothers are fighting back

In a dusty township in South Africa’s sun-drenched wine country, Charay Afrika says only one thing helped numb her through a turbulent relationship and two pregnancies: alcohol.

She drank all day, every day, throughout her full-term pregnancies – unaware of the effect alcohol could have on her children.

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