Margie Profet claims that pregnancy sickness and an aversion to certain
foods are natural mechanisms to help women to avoid toxins that could harm their
fetuses. That sounds like common sense, but Protecting Your Baby-to-Be would be
more convincing if it presented more hard evidence and made fewer confident,
unsubstantiated assertions. Published by Warner, £7.99, ISBN
0751518484.
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