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SUNDAY, JANUARY 15, 1978 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SEC. 8-PAGE 9 Friend Of "The family- Doctor-Parents Reveal Threats To Health Of Unborn In Book appropriate, when the day comes that they are no longer close by. A healthy conscience will also allow the child, when he is grown up, to have fun without guilt and to be fulfilled without fear. An excessively highly developed conscience will make a person afraid to let himself go, even when doing so wouldn't hurt a thing The highest form of self-expression is work While a person who does what he loves to do and gets paid for it, too, is lucky indeed, it's true that many people do not have jobs which allow them to use their abilities in creative ways. YET A PERSON still can express his uniqueness.

He can become an expert at something like fixing cars. He can become absorbed in a hobby. Volunteer work or neighboring fulfills many people. So does maintaining a beautiful home or yard. Or knowing how to catch the biggest fish! A person doesn't have to be famous to make the world better than it was before he came upon the scene.

He just has to contribute his own individual talents. That's self-expression at its healthiest What will people remember about you when you are gone? you don't like the answer to that question, it's not too late to change your life. Call the Family Service Association, a United Way agency, at 634SMI. We can help you express your best sell self-expression. When a person is unable to cope with the isolation caused by being answerable to nobody and thus belonging to nobody, he may try to find at least one friend who thinks as he does.

Or he may join a group which shares common ideas with him. The sense of belonging lasts until he feels too much pressure is being put on him, and he then leaves the group to be independent once again. THE FAMILY OUGHT to provide the laboratory where a person can test different kinds of ideas and behavior to see what will work for him and what won't to check out what other people think without risking his reputation or his belonging to the group. It is in the closeness of his family, too, that he ought to be able to get out into the open his fears, his guilts and his often anti-social impulses. Other family members will let him know just how far he can go, and they surely will do so without kicking him out if he steps over the line.

The outside world might not be so understanding. PARENTS SHOULD make it clear to a child that, no matter how he expresses himself, they will still love him. This isn't to say that they let him get away with murder. Far from it. By disciplining him, they help him develop the conscience which will tell him what behavior is pie reach for unthinkingly, has been linked at least theoretically to fetal damage throughout pregnancy.

Found in a wide array of over-the-counter cold remedies, aspirin has been tentatively indicted in scientific research as responsible for fetal deaths, birth defects and bleeding in the newborn. "We decided to write the book because we simply could find no one volume that concentrated solely on prenatal care," Ronald Gots said in an interview. "There was no popular book of fetal pharmacology particularly on over-the-counter drugs." "It's not that the information wasn't available," adds Barbara Gots, mother of two. "It was in scientific papers and abstracts. But it was a matter of digging it out." THEY DEVOTE MUCH of their book to the dangers of drugs taken during pregnancy a reflection of Ronald's specialty, but also information they feel most obstetricians aren't likely to offer "The obstetrician is really concerned more with the pregnant woman's welfare than with the child," Barbara Gots said "So if a woman is experiencing pain, morning sickness or swelling, he will prescribe drugs.

And pregnancy can be uncomfortable But she also faults obstetricians for THI FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION STAFF Self-expression is Betty's bag. She tells people just what she thinks of them. She stays up until all hours playing her stereo and thinks her parents are outrageous to object. She goes to school whenever she feels like it and turns in only assignments she gets around to. Betty doesn't have any friends.

Her parents are angry with her most of the time, and she's flunking out of college. This is hardly the way most people want their lives to be. While Betty may think she's expressing herself in a healthy way, what she's really doing is acting on every impulse that flits through her head. She rarely stops to figure how her behavior will affect other people. Although each person needs self-expression of some kind, he has to take responsibility for his actions.

If he is nasty to friends, they may seek companionship elsewhere. If he spits at a policeman, he may get arrested. The relationship between cause and effect is usually pretty easy to see. A PERSON WHO doesn't share values, goals or interests with anyone is, in the current lingo, "his own person." He places his independence above everything. The cost may be a bad case of isolation.

Loneliness makes a lot of people think twice about total independence and total By SUSAN FOGG (c) If 71, NtwheuH Mm Service Washington When two doctors decide to have a baby well, it would be a professional embarrassment if they didn't do it right. But when Drs. Barbara and Ronald Gots were planning for their first child, they discovered there was no comprehensive book for pregnant women on the best ways to ensure the health and minimize risks for the developing fetus. So the eye specialist and her husband who holds a doctorate in pharmacology (the study of drugs) as well as an M.D. decided to write their own.

The result is "Caring for Your Unborn Child" (Stein and Day a Dr. Spock for mothers-to-be that brings together the latest research on a host of environmental hazards to the fetus from common aspirin to the family cat. IF THEIR BOOK fails to match the wit and style Dr. Benjamin Spock brought to "Bringing Up Baby," they have done a commendable job of unearthing from scientific papers only recently understood threats to the unborn in straightforward lay prose. Perhaps the most unsettling information in their book is that aspirin, the ubiquitous painkiller of American medicine cabinets and a drug most peo- established threats to the fetus.

Take the matter of the family cat, a special concern of opthalmologist Barbara Gots. Cats are carriers of parasites known as toxoplasma which are dependent on members of the feline family to complete their reproductive cycle. However, the eggs laid by these parasites deposited in litter boxes -can infest human beings. In adults, toxoplasma are unlikely to cause no more than a mild infection, but they can cross the delicate placental barrier between pregnant woman and the fetus. If this happens, brain damage, liver failure and blindness can result.

Some 3,000 children a year are born sightless because of taxoplasmosis. "We like cats, we really do," Ronald Gots said. But he and his wife strongly recommend that pregnant women get someone else to empty the litter box and that they wash their hands after touching their cats. THEY URGE PREGNANT women to take vitamin supplements during pregnancy to make sure they are receiving a balanced diet since it is hard to stick to one without such boosters They advise women to commence dieting only after they have delivered a child, recommending a weight gain of 20 to 25 pounds during pregnancy Aspirin alternatives such as warm milk for minor aches and pains are outlined in the book, with special sections devoted to women with diabetes A table at the end of the book lists and briefly summarizes the hazards of common drugs To cut down on the use of drugs during labor and delivery, they endorse the Lamaze and Bradley methods of natural childbirth, especially the training classes that familiarize would-be-mothers-and fathers with what to expect during delivery and how to minimize trauma. They do balk at the current fad for home deliveries, pointing out that many things can go wrong that would be easily handled in the hospital but can be catastrophic at home even in the most seemingly normal and uneventful pregnancy.

THEN SOMEONE ELSE WANTS THEM Artists Pioneer In Converting City Slums their attitudes toward pregnant women "They pat you on the head and say 'Don't worry about it, deary'." she said "When I began asking my doctor about drugs, nutrition and other things like that, he told me 'You're a doctor You find out You know as much about it as I do' It was this attitude which Barbara Gots said women resent or should resent that in part explains the birth of the couple's book "Armed with some knowledge, women can come into control of their own pregnancy and insure the health of their baby as far as possible," she said INDEED, IT IS the pregnant woman who can do the most to fuarantee the well-being of her baby through her diet and personal lifestyle Smoking and drinking are both unnecessary and well- that someone is probably not the loft dweller," says Stratton. For the few who, after reading Stratton's book, still feel irresistibly drawn, hammer and eviction notice in hand, to the nearest rundown city factory, the author offers some tips to keep in mind "The left hand of a city government does not know what the right hand is doing. Nor does it know what the left hand is doing." "The bureaucrat who knows least is the bureaucrat most anxious to prove it." "When a loft is renovated, things will take about twice as long and cost about twice as much as expected." "If something is not the way the code says it should be, redefine it so that it will conform." "In choosing a loft neighbor, discretion is the better part of value." "Anything which is not nailed down is mine. Anything I can pry loose is not nailed down OPEN Sunday Evenings until 9 Program Helping Alcoholic Moms P.y JO TL'BB Copley News Service Terry Davis knows what it's bound by the iron chains of Los Angeles, Calif like to be a mother alcoholism Fashionable women are saving smartly in DAVIDSON'S By LEE M1TGANG AP Urban Affairs Writer New York AP) They live in shacks in Atlanta, abandoned storefronts in Chicago, an old railway express office in Dallas, a warehouse in San Francisco, the shell of a supermarket in Washington, DC They are artists, mostly, claiming -what may be America's last housing frontier loft buildings no one else has desire or ingenuity to turn into dwellings What stands between these pioneers and their homes are bureaucrats, landlords, and a maze of city zoning laws and building codes. These wilderness areas are in the hearts of a dozen or more American cities abandoned tenements, factory buildings and even chicken coops that only the artistic eye and imagination could picture as a place to work and live.

This so-called "loft movement" had its spiritual start in Sollo in Iiwcr Manhattan in the mid-'60s when perhaps 10.000 artists turned century-old abandoned factories into inexpeasive, spacious dwellings and saved that neighborhood from the usual fate of the wrecking ball and the high-ruse slum ARTISTS ARE NOW creating loft homes in many other cities, and the movement is described in a recent book, "Pioneering in the Urban Wilderness," by Jim Stratum. "There are converted loft spaces from Tampa, Fla to Portland, Maine, to Seattle to Los Angeles Many are isolated, and most seem isolated from the standpoint of their solitary residents, just as the New York pioneers before 1970 thought they were alone," Stratton says The experiences described in the au-" thor's interviews with loft dwellers in 23 cities range Irom heroic struggles to bitter ironies Most ironic, says Stratton, is that when artists finally win the right from officials and real estate interests to improve dilapidated buildings and save neighborhoods, they may ultimately lose their new homes to high prices created by outside demand. The haven that SoHo artist-pioneers created out of the Lower Manhattan wilderness drew interest from the middle class, the chic, the greedy. "Vanity lofts" that appealed to the wealthy were built, boutiques and art galleries and restaurants were opened, and some pioneers are America's urban pioneer is the artist in search of a home in the midst of city slums. He's hardy, imaginative and optimistic Often he succeeds in Ins search.

Just as often he overachieves Others want what he's created and he's off on an other quest. being driven out by soaring rents IN THE BEST circumstances, the host city will ignore the inevitable list of code and zoning violations when these urban pioneers convert a building never meant to be lived in "City zoning says we can't live here, but they are so happy about artists moving in that they leave us alone," says Richard Childcrs, an artist whom Stratton found living in an abandoned Railway Express office in downtown Dallas. Zoning laws are generally ignored in Denver, too, where Beverly Rosen lives and paints in an 85-year old raccoon skinning factory In fact, urban pioneers seeking "alternative space," as Stratton calls it, have had little to complain about in several other cities where building renovation is in vogue, including Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Minneapolis. But in Kansas City it was a different story, says Stratton. Artists for some time had been moving into and improving the city's skid row, called the River Quay, not far from the strip-joint and gangland neighborhood.

Then the city decided to build its convention center in the heart of the sleazy area. THE STRIPPERS and muggers had to move They chose the emerging artist district, where gang wars blew up three buildings and scared many artists away, Stratton says More often, the problems the loft-pioneer encounters are inside the loft problems that can defy the master plumber, carpenter, electrician or exterminator, much less the amateur Stratton isn't kidding The mayhem the urban pioneer finds in most loft buildings is as difficult to clear as the wilderness tackled 200 years ago by less urban-minded pilgrims. "The ancient pipes which have been cut away, the rusty metal plates on the floor, the dangerous old electrical lines which buzz and sparkle on the ceiling, all of this is useful to someone although Jut recently she celebrated her fifth "sober birthday" by lunching with friends all of them, like herself, recovered alcoholics. "It's been awhile, but I still haven't forgotten," she says of the days she nursed the bottle more than her two children Now, those five years and a Ph.D. degree later, she's helping other alcoholic mothers and their families readjust to a world of sobriety Dr Davis is the director of the Family Rehabilitation Coordinator Training Project, a University of California at Los Angeles program aimed at helping families cope while the mother is being treated for alcoholism.

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