“I have perfume allergies that cause skin rashes […] and I think […] if I can do as much as possible to make sure nothing unnecessary crosses over to the baby, which may cause health problems later in life, I think as a parent, you would always do that.” (P6)
One woman told how she had always thought of her pregnant friends as prudish, as they were very aware of avoiding perfume and hormone-disrupting ingredients. However, when she got pregnant herself, she could better relate to that feeling: