Should pregnant women drink filtered water?

Study links chloroform in drinking water and disinfectants to small-for-gestational-age babies
Reuters Health Staff writer
Pregnant woman drinking a glass of water

Chloroform exposure in late pregnancy from drinking water and other disinfection byproducts is associated with a higher risk of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) newborns, an observational study suggests.

US and Chinese researchers studied about 4000 blood and urine samples collected across pregnancy trimesters among 1660 mothers in China.