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6 harmful habits that can affect your baby in the womb
Alcohol crosses the placenta and can interfere with fetal growth, leading to conditions like fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS ... Drugs like cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine can increase the ...
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Intrauterine Exposure to Drugs and Alcohol: How Do the Children Fare?
Of particular interest, 1 child was identified as having fragile X syndrome, a genetic disorder ... Researchers also have linked prenatal cocaine exposure to cerebral infarctions.
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MATERNAL DRINKING AND FETAL CLUBFOOT
We studied the prevalence of clubfoot in 129 patients with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS ... polydrug abusers (alcohol + narcotics ± cocaine). Group I comprised 55 mothers (40 blacks, 15 Puerto ...
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Hundreds of Thousands of US Infants Every Year Pay the Consequences of Prenatal Exposure to Drugs, a Growing Crisis Particularly in Rural America
Stimulants include cocaine ... with prenatal substance exposure, primarily to opioids, is a set of withdrawal symptomsexperienced by the newborn known as neonatal abstinence syndrome.