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Can A Baby Be Born Deaf, If You Smoked While Pregnant?
can a baby be born deaf, if you smoked while pregnant?
Sun, 4 Sep 2011
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Smoking in mother can retard brain development and growth of fetus.Though not specific cause of deafness, it might result in various neurological problems like deafness , low IQ, behaviour and sleep problems etc.Other causes of congenital deafness more likely are maternal infection and genetic malformation syndromes.
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Smoking in mother can retard brain development and growth of fetus.Though not specific cause of deafness, it might result in various neurological problems like deafness , low IQ, behaviour and sleep problems etc.Other causes of congenital deafness more likely are maternal infection and genetic malformation syndromes.
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