Polish Baby Born Drunk; Blood Alcohol Content 15 Times The Legal Limit

Daily Telegraph:

A new born baby was found to be 15 times the adult drink drive limit after its Polish mother got drunk before the birth.

The mother was intoxicated during labor as she gave birth to a baby girl.

Doctors at a hospital in Otwock, on the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland called in police after the clearly-drunk expectant mother checked in to give birth on Monday.

Police spokeswoman Dorota Tietz said: "A blood test showed that the 38-year-old woman had a level of 1.2 gram of alcohol at the time of birth."

A level of 1.2 grams of alcohol per 1,000 gram of blood is the equivalent of a bottle of wine or two liters of beer for an adult drinker but its impact is compounded in a new born's tiny body.

As a result, the infant was found to have a level of 2.9 grams, police said.

The blood-alcohol limit for drivers in Poland is 0.2 grams.

The mother, who has not been named, could now face up to five years in prison on charges of having endangered the life and health of her child, Tietz said.

She added: "The baby's life is not in immediate danger but doctors fear the impact on her development."

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