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The embryo is connected to the umbilical cord to the mother. The baby feeds on what its mother eats. Absorbs the nutrients and oxygen it needs. Drugs and other harmful substances will affect the embryo's development and it could possibly cause low birth weight, early birth. Also it will cause the embryo now a fetus have problems receiving oxygen and nutrients from its mother.

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