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 [...]
Tags: birth defects, car pollution, low birth weight, lung development, pollution, pregnancy concerns
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April is Cesarean Awareness Month. And increased awareness is definitely what we need, not only for this month but the whole year round. Because the recent US baby boom seemed to have been accompanied by a C-section boom.
According to the 2007 statistics recently released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), C-section delivers [...]
Tags: C-section, cesarean, International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), low birth weight, preterm delivery
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It’s a baby boom! Government researchers just reported that in 2007, there were 4.3 million live births. That tops even the baby boom of the 1950s. After concerns on some fronts in recent years about the US population not reproducing itself, this is a sigh of relief. But the numbers are slightly misleading. According to [...]
Tags: abortion, birthrate, CDC, cesarean, low birth weight, population, premature, teen pregnancy, unwed mothers
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