Table 1. Prenatal ethanol exposure transiently reduces body weight in males in the early postnatal period.

Average offspring weight gain separated by sex starting on the day after birth (P1) to weaning an experimental use (P21). On P1 litters were culled to 12 pups consisting of 6 pups of each sex where possible. A two-tailed student’s t-test was used to evaluate the effect of prenatal diet treatment within sex and age. PNEE had no effect on offspring weight at any age in female pups, however it significantly reduced male pup weights at P1 and P3 but at no other age. The average weights are expressed below ± the SEM. Statistical significance was considered when p < 0.05 and is indicated using distinct symbols (* or ^Δ), indicating statistical significance from the values indicated with the identical symbol within this table.

Postnatal day (P)	Average Control Pup Weight (g)		Average Ethanol Pup Weight (g)
	Male	Female	Male	Female
P1	8.13 ± 0.16*	6.93 ± 0.49	7.20 ± 0.24*	6.58 ± 0.29
P3	10.69 ± 0.36Δ	8.94 ± 0.63	9.29 ± 0.35Δ	8.79 ± 0.37
P7	16.83 ± 0.67	16.45 ± 0.55	15.48 ± 0.83	14.15 ± 0.91
P14	29.71 ± 2.57	30.85 ± 1.39	29.70 ± 1.37	28.18 ± 1.30
P21	55.52 ± 3.72	48.69 ± 5.31	48.34 ± 2.53	44.43 ± 2.41