NRDC: Nine Steps to a Safer Pregnancy

NRDC: Nine Steps to a Safer Pregnancy: "The most obvious of these factors include avoiding alcohol, cigarette smoke, caffeine and kitty litter boxes. Unfortunately, prenatal exposures to other common contaminants can affect the fetus during critical periods when vital systems are developing, says pediatrician Philip Landrigan, M.D., director of the Center for Children’s Health and the Environment at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Below we discuss ways to avoid nine kinds of toxins capable of crossing the placenta and harming an unborn child."

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