Dorys Frometa (Edison) Deformed Babies.

20. March 2009 by student.

Today in class we discussed the issue of pesticide affecting deformed babies and well that left me thinking a whole lot. As soon as I got home today I went online and did some research on it, and honestly what I found on those babies is horrible! The percentage of deformed babies is growing, and whether we believe it or not this is becoming a social problem. More people are having less of a chance to live a normal life and less people are doing something about it. I believe it is time to re think of how good life is and how great it will be if we prevent all children from been born deformed.

I use to ask myself if babies were naturally born deformed  or did something cause them to be like that. And I found that very rarely are babies just born naturally deformed. Most of the time there is always a reason behind this horrible phenomenon.

I found this article online and it showed me a lot of why smoking should be ILLEGAL to pregnat women.

Pregnant women who smoke may end up giving birth to deformed babies, according to study published in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Even smoking half a packet of cigarettes // a day may raise the risk by 29% for the unborn child. The effects may be felt even before the woman is aware that she is pregnant.

‘We found that the more a woman smoked, the higher the risk became that the baby would have these defects,’ said study leader Benjamin Chang, M.D., pediatric plastic and reconstructive surgeon at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

In the largest study of its kind, covering 84% of the births in the US, Dr. Chang and co-author Li-Xing Man, M.Sc., both of Children’s Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania, reviewed the records of more than 6.8 million live births listed in the U.S. Natality database from 2001 and 2002.

And although their study did not prove that prenatal exposure to cigarettes causes digital anomalies, Dr. Chang says that there was a strong association between the two, as the population studied was very large, and the dose-response effect was significant.

‘Although the overall risk of having these defects is rather small, the increase in risk posed by tobacco exposure has the potential to affect thousands of children. Health professionals should increase their efforts to remind women of the dangers of smoking’, he said.

I’m sorry if anybody that smokes get’s ofended by this, but I’m not saying smoking should be illlegal for everybody. Though I highly dislike smoking of any kind I don’t mind if other people want to waste there life doing it. I just really think pregat women shouldn’t be allow to even smell smoke, knowing that it can affect their baby so much.

In conclusion:

Be responsible, save a life & enjoy a normal baby =)

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