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Is it safe to take weight reducers in your first trimester of pregnancy?

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Absolutely not: Early first trimester pregnancy is the critical time of fetal formation and development and is not the time for introducing weight loss drugs(often diuretics) into your fragile metabolic system at that time.

Answered 7/28/2012

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