If a pregnant woman has been drinking during pregnancy and alcohol seems to be the most serious offender, in terms of causing brain damage, the baby's brain will probably be changed permanently. Nobody knows quite how much alcohol exposure produces fetal alcohol syndrome or alcohol related neurodevelopmental disorder, however we know that alcohol exposure does produce permanent long term damage. And the thing's most interfered with early on in the development is the child's capacity to trust and connect with the birth-mother or whoever the caregiver's, after they're given to her, because the brain has not matured as it should have and so, when the child was born after having exposure to alcohol, they are not prepared to do what a typically developing brain would have a baby do, which is to be born, seek the food source, establish eye contact with a mother and accept nurturing and cuddling, so that alcohol damage is very serious, but families can help many of these children, but the overall damage is permanent, though there are many things parents can do to help the child learn, develop cause and effect thinking and finally settling to, the least being someone able to function in a more independent way as they mature.