Part 1: Consider your own health-related behavior in the past month – sleep, nutrition, exercise, alcohol consumption, drug use, medical and dental care. Would you change your behavior if you were pregnant or planning to become pregnant? How?
If you are a male/partner, how would you change your own health-related behavior if your wife or partner were having a baby? In what ways would you support your wife or partner to have a healthy pregnancy?
Part 2: After reading “Problems & Solutions” and information about Tertatogens, Risk Analysis, and Critical Periods, what do you think should be done when a women knowingly drinks alcohol or uses other harmful recreational drugs during pregnancy? Reading the “advise from doctors and scientists” in this section may help you make an informed response.
I will send you the chapter for this assignment and please use references and to cite from JUST the chapter.