Drinking alcohol whilst pregnant may cause a risk to your childs health. The Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) affects one in 100 babies’, causing restricted growth and heart failure.

FASD is the general term for a variety of mental, physical and behavioral problems linked to consuming alcohol during pregnancy, inclusive of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. One drink won’t result in FASD; however, the exact amount of alcohol that causes FASD is unknown. To reduce misunderstandings over what might be safe, most experts guide pregnant women to restrain themselves from drinking. There are several ways of testing for alcohol if you wish to test someone who you belive is drinking while pregnant.

Kids with FASD usually seem to be normal but compared to other children, they behave abnormally; they can often be a bit slow to apprehend things, stuff they learn is not stored for long (they aren’t processed into the long term memory), they have sudden mood swings and find social situations difficult.

There area few physical signs of FASD including smaller and wide-set eyes, a thin upper lip and no groove between the nose and lip. however, most do not, which is a reason why their behaviour is often misunderstood well into adulthood.

Drinking during pregnancy is a very unrecommended thing to do as it harms your unborn baby and damages them for life. If you can’t seem to be able to stop drinking alcohol while pregnant, you need to go and see your doctor to help you to stop drinking.

Most children with the disorder manage to adapt to social situations and can function well in some jobs, including some trades.

An alcohol test can be easily conducted using a breath alcohol test at home, these tests are accurate, cheap and can be used at home.

Traditional options for accommodation when you travel to iceland sometime prove too costly for families and small groups. Foreign tourists looking for bargain travel deals in Iceland get great value for money while staying in a summer cottage rather than in a hotel or a guesthouse. Viator an an online reservation/booking service  provides an exclusive but inexpensive booking service on behalf of 130 owners of privately owned summer cottages in all parts of Iceland.

Viator.is was founded in 2002 by Petur Oskarsson and Bjarnheidur Hallsdottir. The company represents the owners of 130 privately owned cottages located in all parts of the country who make their cottages available for rent to foreign tourists visiting Iceland. Although each cottage is furnished and decorated differently they all include hot and cold water as well as heating. The cottages also include a shower or a bath, fully equipped kitchen and one or more bedrooms.

“About 80 percent of our customers spend their time here during the summer season which coincides with the traditional school holidays in Europe and North America,” says Oskarsson. Those visiting the country in winter would enjoy a different kind of experience such as sitting in a hot-tub heated with geothermal water while gazing at the northern lights.

Nearly half of all summer cottages in Iceland are located within an hour’s drive from Reykjavik the country’s capital where 65 percent of the population lives.

Further information about renting privately owned summer cottages in Iceland is available both in English and in the German language as Ferienhäuser in Island on Viator’s website: www.viator.is