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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, of course it's not your fault! I am pretty sure my mother didn't take any prenatals back in the 1970s and I do not have it - SB is fairly rare and has always been fairly rare even though prenatal vitamins are a relatively new thing. If your crazy coworker was right, everyone over a certain age would have SB because prenatals [b]haven't been invented when they were in utero[/b]!

There is nothing you can do to prevent a genetic condition that appears before you even know you are pregnant. Ignore your trouble-making coworker.[/quote]

The reason they were invented was to support the decline in nutrition over the last hundred years or so preceding.  Before that, most people had no choice but to eat whole grains, more vegetables, etc. because that's what was available. The wide availability of white flour and white sugar caused a lot of malnutrition, and linked to birth defects.  Only when we figured out that some nutrition needed to be added back in to "fortify" the products did these become less common.

OP's coworker is nutty and rude and unhelpful.  I remember being similarly worried over my daughter because she has a certain type of birthmark and for a while it seemed one leg was longer than the other - got her checked out and she was fine. We never did determine why we couldn't get the same measurement for each leg, but she had asymmetric creases in her legs so Dr. suggested an X-Ray - her legs are the same length after all.  She's 3 now and walks, runs, and looks fine.

OP please don't beat yourself up over this.  Tongue tie is really NBD and as for the dimple, I know they are very common and keeping an eye on it is all you can do.  Don't stress over things that can't be changed.[/quote]

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