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When I found out I was pregnant with my son, I became hyper-aware of how toxic the world around me is. I had been aware for quite some time, but suddenly I had a new life growing inside of me and mother bear instinct took over. I made my husband fill the car with gas to avoid the fumes that leak out into the air and I quit my volunteer job at a local animal shelter because of the potent bleach and chemicals they used to clean with. I would put on the microwave to heat food, then walk away from it until it beeped. I couldn’t believe how daily tasks and certain habits I had formed, mostly for convenience purposes, suddenly had an element of danger to them.

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