Neonatalogist Paul Winchester explored whether a herbicide increases risk of low birth weight babies.
Health and safety organizations throughout the world are at odds on how to classify Roundup and other herbicides using glyphosate.long wondered why doctors have been seeing more babies born prematurely.
The most recent study of 187 pregnant women in the Midwest detected the chemical glyphosate, one of the most widely used herbicides, in the urine of all but one of the women during the first trimester of pregnancy. The scientists also found that women who had higher levels of glyphosate in their urine were more likely to give birth to babies who fell in lower weight percentiles and higher risk of neonatal intensive care unit admission.“The consequences of that are enormous,” Winchester said.
Little Molly Evans experienced many of those in the first months of her life. When her mother Brittany Tucker went into labor at 27 weeks of pregnancy, she had no sign that her first child would arrive about three months early and spend more than 10 weeks or so in the neonatal intensive care unit at Franciscan Health Indianapolis.Born Sept. 1 after only a few hours of labor, Molly weighed three pounds, one ounce at birth.
“They just took such good care of her in there,” Tucker said. “It meant everything to us, we were super-scared and confused.” From a societal standpoint, Winchester would like to see Indiana water companies increase how often they sample chemicals in drinking water. Currently, they are required to do so only four times a year and that rarely occurs in June, when both herbicide levels and water sales hit their peak.
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