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Jon M. Sweeney (born July 18, 1967) is an American author. His most frequent subjects are Catholic, particularly St. Francis of Assisi, about whom Sweeney has written The St. Francis Prayer Book, Francis of Assisi in His Own Words, When Saint Francis Saved the Church, The Complete Francis of Assisi, and The Enthusiast.
In 1973, Smith and Kenneth Lyons Jones identified a pattern of "craniofacial, limb, and cardiovascular defects associated with prenatal onset growth deficiency and developmental delay" in eight unrelated children of three ethnic groups, all born to mothers who were alcoholics. They called it the fetal alcohol syndrome. [2]
The book was often cited as presenting the first images of a live fetus in utero. [14] In fact, Geraldine Flanagan's The First Nine Months Of Life had in 1962 compiled a similar set of fetal images from medical archives. [15] The images played an important role in debates about abortion and the beginning of human life. [16]
Milwaukee writer Jon M. Sweeney describes how 17 books have intersected with key moments in his life.
He’d previously diagnosed some children with similar abnormalities with fetal alcohol syndrome, even though their mothers denied drinking while pregnant. facial photographs of Individuals 1-6 (A ...
The Broken Cord, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction, was about dealing with his adopted son, who had fetal alcohol syndrome, and the widespread damage among children born with this problem. The work helped provoke Congress to approve legislation to warn of the dangers of drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
Perhaps the child seen most with his dad is the rocker's second child, Jesse James, who was born in Los Angeles on Feb. 19, 1995. Jesse and Jon are business partners in Hampton Water, a rosé wine ...
Alcohol consumption may increase the risk of the development of fetal alcohol syndrome, a condition leading to intellectual disability in some infants. [28] Smoking during pregnancy may also lead to miscarriages and low birth weight (2,500 grams (5 pounds 8 ounces).