Aim
•To describe the demographic and psychosocial characteristics of a pilot cohort of pregnant women and partners recruited through low-risk antenatal clinics.
•To monitor the quantity and frequency of alcohol use in the cohort during pregnancy.
•To investigate the association between maternal and partner alcohol use and scores on relationship satisfaction, cohesion and consensus.
•To investigate the association of maternal and partner alcohol use with physical and non-physical spousal abuse.