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A woman who becomes pregnant is prescribed by her obstetrician prenatal vitamin supplements. And one of the most important of these is folic acid. Folic acid is a synthetic form of folate; folate is an essential B vitamin that plays an important role in many bodily functions. Folic acid supplementation has helped prevent many birth [...]
Traffic Pollution Affects Unborn Babies Development
The results of a study released this week have alarming news. It’s long been suspected that traffic fumes affect unborn babies, but now a large study has shown that mothers who were exposed to higher levels of traffic pollution in early and late pregnancy were more likely to have low [...]
Every month of the year is in honor of something. January, for example, is National Hobby Month as well as National Oatmeal Month, among others. For us here at BOL, however, the most significant thing about January is that it is the National Birth Defects Prevention Month in the US.
Here are some statistics on birth [...]
With any pregnancy, a woman as a lot of new information to take in, mostly related to caring for herself and her unborn child. Many women are advised to avoid certain foods or to go easy or have them in moderate amounts because of the potential impact on the fetus, as well as the mother’s [...]
Another reason to be glad that the days of beehives and Farrah Fawcett flips are over, and women don’t use anywhere near the amount of hairspray we used to.
Women pregnant with a son who used or were exposed to hairspray during the first three months of pregnancy are two to three times likely to have [...]
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