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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.mercola.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Getting Pregnant in the Summer Lowers Your Child's IQ</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/05/10/Getting-Pregnant-in-the-Summer-Lowers-Your-Childs-IQ.aspx</link><description>There's more reasons than ever to question the very dubious safety of pesticides , based on new research linking the rate of conception during the summer months with lower test scores by those very same children in school later on. After analyzing the</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)</generator><item><title>re: Getting Pregnant in the Summer Lowers Your Child's IQ</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/05/10/Getting-Pregnant-in-the-Summer-Lowers-Your-Childs-IQ.aspx#98316</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 17:22:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:98316</guid><dc:creator>wetherbee333</dc:creator><description>I believe that&amp;nbsp;it is possible for the people who live&amp;nbsp;in the warmer states,&amp;nbsp; to be subjected to this stuff all year long. All 5 of my kids where conceived in the winter, in California. I was very careful to eat what I thought was proper nutrition, (if I only knew then what I know now!) Took my Prescribed prenatal vitamins, breastfed each one, and ground up home cooked&amp;nbsp;food instead of feeding bottled babyfood.&amp;nbsp; They have average I.Q.s... BUT,&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;All 5 kids have some&amp;nbsp;form of learning disablity that has required special education.&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=98316" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Getting Pregnant in the Summer Lowers Your Child's IQ</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/05/10/Getting-Pregnant-in-the-Summer-Lowers-Your-Childs-IQ.aspx#98312</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 16:23:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:98312</guid><dc:creator>Russ Bianchi</dc:creator><description>It is a well known FACT (among many nutrition/food experts, but much fewer OB/Gyn's) that the vast majority of prenatal vitamins prescribed by the vast majority of OB/Gyn's for first, second, &amp;amp; third trimesters, DO NOT have any, or very little, bioavailability,&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; were 'grandfathered in' to pregnancy protocols,&amp;nbsp;from the early 1950's.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When OB/Gyn's are confronted with this FACT, they merely shrug their shoulders &amp;amp; say they do it to protect themselves from being sued for malpractice; because Big Pharma as essentially legislated this phony &amp;amp; non health contributing aspect into most pregnancies in the USA.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;This nonscientific &amp;amp; nonmedically based approval, was by the same FDA that was approving DISATEROUS&amp;nbsp;pregnancy drugs during the same period, &amp;nbsp;triggering deformed &amp;amp; mentally retarded children, or genetically damaged female offspring who then miscarried when they became pregnant,&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; was,&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; remains, a consistent pattern in governmental approval, of many drug brands.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Said another way, beyond most expecting mother's telling you (&amp;amp; sometimes their MD's) they stopped taking the fake, synthetic/non absorbable vitamins or minerals: "because they tasted BAD or made them SICK", it is not at all surprising to read in today's article, that at certain times of the year,&amp;nbsp;in relation to pesticide exposure, such exposure&amp;nbsp;is also harming prenatal development (just as DDT thinned bird egg shells).&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Pregnant women, or women who wish to become pregnant, must eat unprocessed whole, organic, &amp;amp; raw food or beverage, where there is REAL bioavailalbe utilization for nutrition &amp;amp; correct growth for their babies, in the pregnancy to full term, &amp;amp; HEALTHY delivery.&amp;nbsp; Additionally, the same protocol is REQUIRED, for nursing, as long as possible, post delivery!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Avoid infant formulas at all cost, they are BAD for your child in comparison to Mother's Milk!&lt;img src="http://blogs.mercola.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=98312" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description></item><item><title>re: Getting Pregnant in the Summer Lowers Your Child's IQ</title><link>http://blogs.mercola.com/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2007/05/10/Getting-Pregnant-in-the-Summer-Lowers-Your-Childs-IQ.aspx#98310</link><pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 15:14:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:98310</guid><dc:creator>Katy B</dc:creator><description>This post was deleted because it violated &lt;a href="http://v.mercola.com/Termsofservice.htm" target="_blank"&gt; our Terms Of Use &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;br&gt; Comment does not pertain to the topic of the article or does not provide value or insight to the discussion. 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