Choose organic produce whenever you possibly can and if you can afford it.

Your fetus is a captive diner, eating in a uterine cafe that you're catering, ... What To Eat When You're Expecting.

I was the first in my peer group to get pregnant. All I craved was reassurance. I needed someone to tell me that all the seemingly random symptoms I had - weird things, such as excess saliva - were normal. And I was worried because I wasn't getting any morning sickness.

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon... or a cardiologist... or a pediatrician... or even a policy wonk to figure out that a penny's worth of preventive care is worth many dollars of sick care.

As obesity creeps into preschools, and hypertension and type II diabetes become pediatric problems for the very first time, the case for starting preventive health care in the cradle has become too compelling to keep ignoring.