Project brings hope for babies at risk of alcohol disorder in womb

04 September 2016 - 02:00
By TANYA FARBER

"I Saw it ... My niece Elsie was a newborn baby and her mom, my brother's girlfriend, was too drunk to care for her. She spent the whole pregnancy drunk and even fed the baby wine from a little bottle. Elsie got used to it and cried for it."Today, that baby is 20 and the Gugulethu aunt who adopted her has loved her like one of her own.

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