There are quite a few different things that your doctor will advise you not to do while you are pregnant, just to ensure the safety of both you and your unborn child. One of the most major however, and that they want you to take in all seriousness, is to stay away from any cat litter while you are pregnant.

The reason that your doctor will ask you to stay away from the cat litter box while you are pregnant is because cat feces can carry a parasite that causes toxoplasmosis, this infection would be potentially life threatening for your developing baby, but not so for you.

So while you a pregnant you are going to want somebody else to clean your cat litter box. Although the odds of you catching toxoplasmosis while you are pregnant are quite low, of course in this case it is a great deal better to be safe than sorry, which is the reason why doctors usually recommend that you just do not go near cat litter while is are with child.

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There is a few other things that you need to avoid also while you are pregnant, besides cat litter. As most people already know, smoking is very bad for your health, but never more so than if you are pregnant.

Smoking while pregnant will do much more harm to your unborn child than it ever will to you, even if you were a smoker before you got pregnant, you should cut back as much as possible or hopefully discontinue altogether, in order to guarantee the best health of your child.

Smoking is a major health problem, but at least if you do smoke when you are not pregnant you will not have the worry about harming your baby. The more that a woman smokes whilst she is pregnant, the greater chance that she has of having a low-birthweight child. This will greatly affect the health of the baby, and particularly if they are premature they may not be able to make it through.

Research suggests that any woman who smokes at anytime during the month before pregnancy to the end of the first trimester are more in all probability to have a baby with birth defects.

I hope you will see from this, staying away from cat litter and other things that are going to be perhaps risky to your developing baby is really important, and will ensure that they stay in the best possible health.

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