teratogens

Last week, the global news outlets reported a case of a baby boy born in India with two penises and four legs.

Smoking is bad.  Bad for mom.  Bad for unborn and born baby.  Now, yet another study reveals its adverse effect on the developing child.   This time the focus is the kidney and the resultant damage.  

Babies inside the womb, as they exit and once out into the world —especially if breastfed—are influenced to varying degrees by their mother’s exposures, albeit illicit or prescription drug intake, food ingestion or smoking, to name a few.