Comments on: Phthalate exposure in NICU babies

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:41:35 +0000

One of my twins spent 11 days in NICU (thankfully that’s all). I’m not nearly as worried about this study as I am about their day to day exposures. All the chemical exposure from lawn fertilizer, weed spray, bug spray…or indoors using plastic for virtually everything. We are constantly striving in our house to keep their environment as “clean” as possible but there is only so much I can do with out driving myself nuts with worry.

Hopefully, their young bodies are resilient enough to overcome the onslaught of hazards we don’t know about yet.

By: Jungletwins

Jungletwins — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:13:46 +0000

Yes, I heard this report as well, and it did very much bother me, as my girls we’re in the NICU and intermediate nursery. I think at this stage all we can do is give this story the publicity it needs, since more publicity = more studies. My inclination is to worry, but I’m trying to shoot that down. A friend of mine always says “worry is interest on a loan you may not have to take.” (I think it may be Mark Twain, but who knows). All we can do now is give our kids the healthiest, happiest childhood we can.

I think about my girls time in the NICU all the time, it’s so intense there, isn’t it?
.-= Jungletwins´s last blog ..My Gandhi Moment =-.

By: Quadmama

Quadmama — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:45:59 +0000

It really is so frustrating and stressful when studies like these come out. My daughters spent between 62 and 87 days in the NICU and I know all the doctors and nurses had their best interests in mind… but then you read something like that and you wonder what the future side effects will be. I don’t know if a fertility problem later in life is a “subtle side effect,” considering the deep emotional toll said problems took on me.
.-= Quadmama´s last blog ..You Just Ate What???? =-.