Monday, March 06, 2006

• My life is pretty much focused on learning at this point. That means not a whole lot of interesting things happen for me to write about. As a result of this here is my new interesting fact of the day:
  
  I have been learning some interesting facts about harmful substances that can cause birth defects. First if you ingest a toxin (like alcohol) in the first three weeks post conception the fetus will either be fine or it will die, all or nothing. If you ingest toxins between weeks 3 and 9 your baby will have a good chance of surviving with severe birth defects. Finally if you ingest toxins after week 9 in most cases the baby will be fine. Pretty interesting. The problem with this is most women do not know they are pregnant until after about three weeks which is right in that problem time period. So women who drink or take drugs regularly, but stop when they find out they are pregnant could actually be too late their baby could already be in trouble. Not everyone who intakes toxins harmful to a fetus during these windows will have a baby with birth defects, but it increases the chance of it happening. So the take
  home message is avoid toxins (common ones are alcohol, cocaine, lithium, accutane, Warfarin, Iodine,
  streptomycin, testosterone, tetracycline, lead, and vitamin A in excess) when there is even a remote chance that you will get pregnant (remember anything can happen even on birth control), because by the time you "know" you are pregnant it might be too late. So bottom line virgin girls better live it up while you are still virgins (bring on the booz!).

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