HDV-282504-1-12542
Lois Ingellis
Environmental Influence
Luce-Josie Nicolas
06/30/13
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Dear Nancy, Thanks for inviting me to your wedding and for informing me of your intention to be part of the parenthood experience as soon as you get married. However, by the same token allow me to take the opportunity, as a friend, to warn you against the danger of consuming alcohol, which is a powerful teratogen, during prenatal period.
As you may have already known, “teratogen is any environmental agent that causes damage during pregnancy”. It may be alcohol, cigarette, cocaine, marijuana and so on. But of all the abused substances, alcohol produces by far the most serious neurobehavioral effects on the fetus according to the Institute of Medicine Report to Congress, 1996. p.35. As such it attacks the nervous system of the fetus at …show more content…
I am certain that you wish the best for your progenitors.
So Nancy, I want to call your attention to the fact that no one is actually exempt from congenital disease. But every one needs to prevent his or her child to carry at birth the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, because it is a behavioral choice. That is why, I beg you to begin abstaining yourself from drink right now. So that, by the time you will become pregnant, you would be free of this dependency. Don’t ever forget Nancy that the gift of life is the best gift a mother can give to her child. So, give him a healthy life, and he will not be a burden for life.
Hoping that you will pay an undivided attention to the advices that proceed, I wish you all the best in your effort to build up a healthy