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| maternal diet and nutrition |
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| advised to gain 25-35lbs; diets that are missing important vitamins minerals or proteins typically result in still born, misscarriage and infant mortality |
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| emotional states and stress |
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intense anxiety results in low birth weight, misscarriage, and infant respiratory illness
-studies found that women who are anxious and under emotional stress--> have infants who are more active in the womb and tend to be irritable, cry more and have feeding and sleeping problems |
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teens diet, baby not being reday for pregnacy and dilivery
Older women, older eggs problem during cell division |
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| age, occupation( factories, and working with chemicals), abuse |
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radiation-> hiroshima, nagaslaki, chernobyl
Pollution-> mercury, lead, pesticides, some household cleaners |
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