In addition, 3.1% of pregnant women report binge drinking. For women, binge drinking is defined as four or more alcoholic beverages within about 2 hours.
This means that about 30% of women who consume alcohol during pregnancy engage in binge drinking.
By comparison, among non-pregnant women in the same age group, 53.6% reported drinking alcohol and 18.2% reported binge drinking.
Moreover, the likelihood of pregnant women to be binge drinking was higher than that of non-pregnant women. While pregnant binge drinkers reported an average of 4.6 episodes in 30 days, non-pregnant binge drinkers reported only 3.1.
This could be because women who binge drink during pregnancy are more likely to be alcohol-dependent than the average female binge drinker, and therefore binge drink more frequently.
Among pregnant women, those most likely to be drinking are those ages 35-44 years (18.6%), college graduates (13%) and unmarried women (12.9%).
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