Growing up Green, for Healthier Prenatal Babies

Prenatal period healthier care,

en route to a Greener Life

It is the fact that our ecosystem affects our children health, we are giving our children a planet plagued by pollutions and wastes, the current trend toward less toxic and more environmentally friendly prenatal and newborn baby goods is certainly a fashion worth to follow, avoid brings our babies into contact with hazardous substances of any kind and in any quantity, raising happy healthier babies are not just about buying as well as using the right goods, but need sharing our own green lifestyle habits with the prenatals and the newborns.

Creating a healthier environment for the babies should be started very early, and any steps, any efforts we can take to decrease our exposure to potentially harmful / hazardous substances during prenatal (pregnancy) are worth to be done, healthier eating and drinking, most safety medications, fresher and healthier indoor air environments, natural personal cares, non toxic house cleanings, green gardenings without pesticides, avoid as much outdoor air pollutions, are all the more important on the nine months fast track.

1. Eat safer foods & dairy products: consume only safer meat. Certain toxins, such as PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyl)**, which may cause neurological damage, dioxin, a carcinogen, are stored in animal fat, avoid high fat dairy products and fatty meat, choose non fat meats and skim milk instead.

** PCB were used as dielectric fluids in transformers and capacitors, coolants, lubricants, stabilizing additives in flexible PVC coatings of electrical wiring and electronic components, pesticide extenders, cutting oils, flame retardants, hydraulic fluids, sealants (used in caulking, etc), adhesives, wood floor finishes, paints, de-dusting agents, and in carbonless copy paper. PCB production was banned in the 1970s due to the high toxicity of most PCB congeners and mixtures. PCBs are classified as persistent organic pollutants which bio-accumulate in animals.

2. Choose low-mercury fish: mercury (Hg), a potent neurotoxin, can harm a developing fetus, increasing the child’s risk of brain damage and learning issues, skip high-mercury fish such as tuna fish, wild bass, sword fish, tilefish, wild bass, Instead, choose safer fish varieties such as sardines, wild salmon, farmed stripped bass, limit or reduce consume the moderate-mercury fish such as canned light tuna.
3. Drink safe and healthy tap water: tap water or city running water (municipal water) may contain toxic chemicals such as nitrit, sulphite, high level of chlorine and heavy metals such as Fe, Cu, Cd, Pb, Mn, and last but least harmful bacteria and molds.
4. Avoid pesticides in food: wash thoroughly all vegetables before cooking, choose green organic foods without pesticides.
5. Use safer food containers: store food and drinking water in glass, ceramic, stainless steel or safer reusable plastic containers such as # 2 (HDPE / High Density Poly-Ethylene), #4 (LDPE / Low Density Poly-Ethylene), and #5 (PP / Poly-Propylene), avoid heating any kind of plastic containers in the microwave oven, as it encourages leaching. Avoid use of #7 (PC / Poly-Carbonate), it leaches hormone-disrupting bisphenol-A into beverages, avoid plastic storage container #3 (V / PVC / Poly-Vinyl-Chloride), which can leach phthalates, also avoid plastic containers #6 (PS / Poly-Styrene), that can leach styrene which is carcinogen.
6. Use safer personal care products: skip the perfumes especially the natural identical or synthetic fragrances / perfumes, nail polish, both personal care products may contain phthalates, which are known as a hormone disruptors, besides, nail polish also contains formaldehyde, which is carcinogen. Instead, use plant-based pure natural essential oils. Avoid anti dandruff shampoos contain Selenium Silfide (Se), carefully choose Sunscreen / Sunbloc creams.
7. Choose nontoxic house cleaning materials: corrosive drain cleaners, corrosive scouring scrubs, heavily perfumed floor polishes, high perfumed air fresheners are harmful for pregnant women, they can release toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs)*, all are indoor air pollutants.

*Volatile organic compounds(VOCs) are organic chemical compounds that have high enough vapor pressures under normal conditions to significantly vaporize and enter the atmosphere. A wide range of carbon-based molecules, such as aldehydes, ketones, and other light hydrocarbons are VOCs.

8. Avoid the use of lawn and garden pesticides during pregnancy: pesticide chlorpyrifos and diazinon related to lower birth weight & lower birth length, prenatal pesticide exposure also causes autism, high blood tension, and gestational diabetes
9. Avoid toxins from home renovation projects: any home renovation or improvement projects using new paints, glues, lacquers, or organic solvents have the potential to release volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the indoor air where they can be inhaled, which will be harmful for health. Paints can release heavy metal lead (Pb) particles into air, which can remain in the body for several months, prenatal lead exposure can interfere with nearly every aspect of fetal development, causing brain and kidney damage, according to the Colombia Center for Children’s Environmental Health**
   

** “ During pregnancy, lead poisoning can lead to spontaneous abortions, stillbirth, and low birth weight. Lead stored long term in bones and teeth can also get released back into the bloodstream and compromise babies’ brain development in the womb. Lead poisoning disrupts normal brain development in infancy and early childhood when major bodily systems are newly forming and developing. Even low levels of lead poisoning can lead to lower IQ, learning disabilities, behavioral problems (e.g. hyperactivity, aggressive behavior), speech delay, and hearing loss. High levels of lead poisoning can lead to irreversible brain damage and even death”.

10. Prevent from exposure to smokes: industrial emissions, automobile exhausts, tobacco smokes, and soot or carbon black (coal) producing candles, all can release fine particulate matter into the air (outdoor air pollution), will irritate the respiratory tract, smokes also contain polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)*** a volatile organic compounds (VOCs), linked to low birth weights and smaller head circumferences in the newborns.

*** Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are chemical compounds that consist of fused aromatic rings and do not contain hetero-atoms or carry substituents. PAHs occur in oil, coal, and tar deposits, and are produced as byproducts of fuel burning (whether fossil fuel or biomass). As a pollutant, they are of concern because some compounds have been identified as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and teratogenic. PAHs are also found in cooked foods, such as grilled meats

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