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How Can Smoking Harm My Unborn Baby - Articles
Tests to detect Down's Syndrome are damaging too many unborn babies
by
Jennifer

Posted
Sun 02 Nov 2008 1:52pm
Mirror News - Tests to detect Down's Syndrome are damaging too many unborn babies
I have never gotten a CVS or amnio done. I've wanted to, but just couldn't do it. After having a bunch of miscarriages, I couldn't risk having a test done that could cause a miscarriage in a healthy pregnancy. Of course, I might have changed my tune if the quad
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Protect unborn babies from CMV
by
Lisa
Posted
Thu 11 Jun 2009 8:11pm
How you can help protect unborn children from CMV
1. Write a letter to the editor of your local papers and magazines (they like to publish letters by their readers... child? That daycare workers are also putting their unborn children at risk? Most people don't, and when I was pregnant with my [child's name], I didn't know either.
Potentially
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What does the state of the economy have to do with your unborn baby?
by
Debra ..
Posted
Tue 27 Jan 2009 7:16pm
of CRH and cortisol in the fetal brain can alter the infant's termperement, increase ADHD, and increase depressive sypmtoms.
I am getting just as stressed writing this, as I am... hormones.
If the economic downturn is making you more stressed, learn how to deal with the stress. Mindfullness-based stress reduction, yoga, and breathing techniques can all
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Depakote (Valproate) Alert: Harmful to Unborn Children
by
Duane Sherry, M.S.
Posted
Wed 15 Apr 2009 11:10pm
Depakote (valproate) is an anticonvulsant - used to treat epilepsy, and prescribed as a “mood stabilizer” for people who’ve been diagnosed with “bipolar disorder.”
The FDA issued an alert on the entire class of anticonvulsants several months ago - citing increased suicidal ideation and behavior.
A new warning comes out this week - based upon rese ...
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Smoking and Baby Poop
by
Dirk H.
Posted
Fri 27 Aug 2010 11:13am
whether your infant has suffered from prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke. The higher the levels of tobacco metabolites, the more likely the mother was an active smoker... for epidemiological studies that enroll women and infants at birth. More studies of this kind are needed, because prenatal tobacco smoke exposure is increasingly implicated in “adverse infant
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