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Creating a Safe Environment for Newborns: Reduce Indoor Air Pollution and Accidents

Learn how to protect your baby from harmful chemicals and create a healthy home environment. Reduce indoor air pollution and accidents. Targeting expectant parents and multiplying awareness through midwives, doctors, and pregnancy course managers.

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Creating a Safe Environment for Newborns: Reduce Indoor Air Pollution and Accidents

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  1. Imagine…..

  2. Paint, varnish, adhesives: volatile organic compounds (VOCs) headache, nausea etc. Main fumigation during first weeks! Babies changing units phthalates: could harm liver and kidneys and could lead to birth deformities in male embryos Carpet, mattress : Insecticides against moths, often with synthetic pyrethroids skin irritation headache Harm the hormone system Furniture made of pressboard, ply wood: Formaldehyde: irritation of the eyes and respiratory track, headache ..... carcinogenic potential

  3. Children are particularly vulnerable • End of the food chain • Biology: various stages of development (immune- and hormone system) • Physiology: • Skin is 5 x thinner • Consume more food and water in proportion to their weight • Breathe more quickly • Behaviour: • Hand-to-mouth exploration

  4. Nesting Help parents to create a safe and healthy environment for their newborns Overall Goal: Improvement of children´s health by • Reducing indoor air pollution (chemicals, tabacco smoke, mould) • reducing accidents • Awareness raising in the field of healthy living

  5. Targetgroup • Expectant parents (first child) • Multiplicators: • Midwives • doctors, • managers of pregnancy courses Germany Great Britain Netherlands Greece France Hungary

  6. Thank you!

  7. Why? Environmental reasons: • Stay indoor during 90% of the day • Indoor air pollution often higher than outdoor Psychological reasons: • in periods of transition awareness raising and changing of consumer pattern most likely • Young parents are most interested, what products contain (regard to IKEA-hotline, consumer protection organisations) • Starting from the perspective of the parents

  8. Why Health reasons: • 200 hazardous chemicals in cord-blood of newborns (Harvard University) • Allergy risk is rising when renovation in the first 6 months (Leipzig, LARS-study)

  9. Why WECF? • Win-win situation (selling the good news, tipps and advices – helping instead of scaring) • Combining safety and health • New network: • Distribute the information through multiplicators like midwifes, doctors, managers of pregnancy courses • Huge interest in many countries

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