Baby’s Breath: How Cleaning House Can “Harm” Your Unborn Child

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By Mia Bolaris-Forget

From changing your eating habits, drinking habits, taking prenatals, and even changing how you may conduct yourself, it’s likely that most, prior to conceiving want to “clean up their act”. And, for some that may also mean cleaning up their home.

Still, cleaning house can be a “scary” prospect for moms-to-be or those trying to conceive. In fact, many experts agree that many of the chemicals we all use to “freshen up” our homes may be doing us and our environment more harm than good. And, they add that many cleaning products contain an array of chemical with unknown side effects.

Experts and studies go on to suggest that those who were fastidious about keeping a clean home, exposed their (unborn) child to a higher risk of developing asthma. This was especially evident with the heavy use of bleach and spray air fresheners, they say.

The study also suggest that infants of women who frequently used either or both bleach and air fresheners during pregnancy increased their unborn child’s chances of developing asthmas by 41 percent.

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