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How to Help Yourself, Your Family Member, or Friend Be an Alcohol-Free Mother-To-Be: Tips for Native Women
Native women can help themselves and others have alcohol-free pregnancies and prevent “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders” (FASD), mild to severe problems affecting a baby that include lifelong physical... Details >
SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
Make Your Community Stronger: How You Can Promote Alcohol-Free Pregnancy
This information helps define fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and provides strategies for Native community members to use to promote alcohol-free pregnancies.... Details >
SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page
Also available in: Spanish
The mission of the National Center for Environmental Health (NCEH) is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, birth defects, disability, and death resulting from i... Details >
National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Preventing Birth Defects - CDC
Although we do not know the cause of most birth defects, the good news is that we know how to prevent some birth defects. Learn what you can do during your pregnancy to help prevent birth defects.... Details >
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
The Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction CERHR web site is your resource for the latest information about potentially hazardous effects of chemicals on human reproduction and devel... Details >
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health
The Power of Our Youth: Help Your Communities Have Healthy Babies
This brochure for Native adolescents explains what FASD is and how preventing it can make a community stronger. It encourages adolescents to learn more about FASD and to share information with others ... Details >
SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
Tips For Preventing Birth Defects  External Links Disclaimer Logo
Approximately 150,000 children are born every year in the United States affected by one or more birth defects. Although the cause of over 60% of birth defects are not known, there are things that you ... Details >
American Pregnancy Association
Why Folic Acid Is So Important
Also available in: Spanish
The B vitamin folic acid helps prevent birth defects. If a woman has enough folic acid in her body before she is pregnant, it can help prevent major birth defects of her baby’s brain and spine.... Details >
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities

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