As mothers, we are our babies’ first environment. The air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, and the products that we put on our skin form part of the building blocks that babies use to develop and grow. Watch this eye-opening video from the Environmental Working Group on how babies are being born pre-polluted:

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