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Front cover images: Vanessa Filley (top left, bottom left, bottom right); Roxanne Engstrom (top right); istock.com/RuslanDashinsky (centre)

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Aufochs Gillespie, Manda, author

Green mama-to-be : creating a happy, healthy, and

toxin-free pregnancy / Manda Aufochs Gillespie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3628-3 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3629-0

(PDF).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3630-6 (EPUB)

1. Pregnant women--Health and hygiene. 2. Pregnancy--

Environmental aspects. 3. Infants--Care--Environmental

aspects. I. Title.

RG525.A94 2017 618.2 C2017-903410-3

C2017-903411-1

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