Is My Baby's Mattress Safe?
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Pregnant mothers exercise extra caution and awareness in what they do to their bodies while they are pregnant. They strive to eat healthy and avoid unhealthy behaviors that might possibly affect their unborn babies. To most,...
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Pregnant mothers exercise extra caution and awareness in what they do to their bodies while they are pregnant. They strive to eat healthy and avoid unhealthy behaviors that might possibly affect their unborn babies. To most, babies are symbolic of purity and perfection. While growing in their mothers's womb, they are protected by the amniotic fluid surrounding them and they arrive into this world, pure and unadulterated. Exposure to our industrialized world won’t happen for years to come, right? Not so fast. In the first benchmark investigation of its kind (Body Burden — The Pollution in Newborns, conducted by the Environmental Working, July 14, 2005, http://www.ewg.org/reports/bodyburden2/execsumm.php) the blood from babies' umbilical cords was analyzed for industrial chemicals and pollutants. “Two hundred and sixty-one chemicals were targeted. The number of chemicals actually found was 287, 180 of which are known carcinogens in humans and animals, 217 are toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 of them cause birth defects in animal tests. Of 209 compounds detected in the blood, eight of them are used in everything from stain and oil repellants in fast food packaging, to clothes and textiles, to flame retardants and pesticides. ” * This study is extremely telling of the environmental exposures that we all live with in our day to day lives and should be read in full. Our world is filled with chemical pollutants that get into our bodies without us even being aware that it is happening. We are exposed when we eat and drink, while at work, driving in our cars, while playing outdoors, when resting in the comfort of our own homes, when we breathe, and even when we sleep in our beds. The average person has no idea of all the places that chemical exposure occurs. In fact, even when you know where the dangers lurk, it is extremely hard if not impossible to stop all our exposure to outside toxins.
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Given the circumstances, it seems reasonable that our best and most obvious course of action (one within our own immediate control) is to limit ours and our family’s exposure to environmental chemicals whenever and wherever...
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