Birth Defects and the Fight to Prevent Them
Women need to make good lifestyle choices when it comes to sexual partners and preventing unwanted pregnancies so that pregnancies can be planned, ensuring that there is the ability to make preparations for a healthy conception and pregnancy.
There is much that can be done to help prevent birth defects. No one likes to see babies suffer or die from birth defects that could have been prevented. Education is one key to helping moms prepare before becoming pregnant and also to do what ever is necessary during pregnancy to have a healthy baby. There are many books, Websites and organizations available to help moms and moms-to-be to prepare for a healthy baby free of birth defects. Another key to fighting birth defects is proper prenatal care, this means providing medical care for all pregnant women and providing the means to receive proper nutrition during pregnancy and during breastfeeding.
Education begins with young girls and teaching them about sexual diseases that could affect their future children. Women need to be educated about the need to have preconception planning appointments so that they can do all they can to assure a healthy pregnancy and baby. There are lifestyle choices that are made preconception and during the pregnancy that can have an affect on the health of the baby including smoking, drinking alcohol, nutrition and hot tub usage.
Healthcare is the concern of all involved in the process including legislative bodies of our government those who govern them and those who vote for issues concerning healthcare. Those making decisions regarding healthcare issues like which policies to offer employees should take into considerations the needs of women in their reproductive years and the unborn children that may be affected by their decision to provide healthcare or not.
Women need to make good lifestyle choices when it comes to sexual partners and preventing unwanted pregnancies so that pregnancies can be planned, ensuring that there is the ability to make preparations for a healthy conception and pregnancy.
Books:
Protecting Your Baby-To-Be: Preventing Birth Defects in the First Trimester by Margie Profet
The Healthy Baby Book, A Parent's Guide to Preventing Birth Defects and Other Long-Term Medical Problems Before, During and After Pregnancy by Carolyn Reuben
Preventing two of the most common and severe birth defect: An article from: Humpty Dumpty's Magazine by Cory SerVaas (Digital - June 1, 2005)
Smoking and Pregnancy: The Politics of Fetal Protection by Laury Oaks
Preventing Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and other alcohol-related birth defects by Elizabeth Howard
Heart Birth DefectsWhat parents should do if their baby is born with a birth defect.
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Websites:
The March of Dimes has a Website where viewers can find information about pregnancy, babies and prematurity including how to reduce infant mortality and birth defects. The Website can be found at:
http://www.marchofdimes.com/
The National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities has a Website that can be found at:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/
Kidshealth.org also has a section of their site devoted to preventing birth defects. It can be found at:
http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/system/ill/birth_defects.html
The American Pregnancy Association also has birth defect prevention tips that can be found on:
http://www.americanpregnancy.org/birthdefects/index.htm
There are many organizations set up to help educate and assist in the fight against birth defects. They are:
March of Dimes
ECLAMC (the Latin American Collaborative Study of Congenital Malformations)
IBIS (International Birth Defects Information System)
The International Clearinghouse for Birth Defects Monitoring Systems
World Alliance of Organizations for the Prevention of Birth Defects
FPBD (Families Preventing Birth Defects) Today's News About Birth Defects
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12/02/2008
Aviator uses feet to fly (KVOA Tucson)
Flying through a crisp blue sky in San Manuel is an plane piloted by a 25-year-old woman without arms. Jessica Cox has a congenital birth defect. She doesn't have arms so she uses her feet to do almost everything including fly a plane.
Aviator uses feet to fly (KVOA Tucson)
11/30/2008
Cosmetics 'increase birth defect risk' (Perth Now)
PREGNANT woman have been warned to make-do without make-up because it could lead to birth defects.
Cosmetics 'increase birth defect risk' (Perth Now)
12/01/2008
Using cosmetics during pregnancy 'increase birth defect risk' (New Kerala)
Melbourne, Dec 1 : Pregnant woman have been warned against the use of cosmetics, for they could lead to birth defects.
Using cosmetics during pregnancy 'increase birth defect risk' (New Kerala)
12/05/2008
Mother’s Act promotes pregnancy as lucrative market for Big Pharma (Online Journal)
Women of childbearing years represent the most lucrative market for the makers of psychiatric drugs. The knowledge that infants were being born with birth defects and suffering a withdrawal syndrome when these drugs were used during pregnancy was hidden for decades.
Mother’s Act promotes pregnancy as lucrative market for Big Pharma (Online Journal)
12/01/2008
Using cosmetics during pregnancy 'increase birth defect risk' (New Kerala)
Melbourne, Dec 1 : Pregnant woman have been warned against the use of cosmetics, for they could lead to birth defects.
Using cosmetics during pregnancy 'increase birth defect risk' (New Kerala)
12/03/2008
Surgery bill too costly for them (The New Straits Times)
GEORGE TOWN: Month-old Cheah Zong Ting had an urgent operation recently to correct a heart-related birth defect.
Surgery bill too costly for them (The New Straits Times)
12/01/2008
Fertility treatments linked to birth defects (Daily Vidette)
A recent study has shown that children born from Assisted Reproductive Technology may be at a greater risk of birth defects than children conceived naturally. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention found certain birth defects were two to four times more likely among infants born with the help of fertility treatments than those not.
Fertility treatments linked to birth defects (Daily Vidette)
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