" The relationship between obstetric drugs and sometimes ultimately fatal intoxication in adulthood is not accidental. Through amniotic fluid, the foetus develops a taste for the foods his mother prefers; this transmission is thought to assist the transition to nursing and, after weaning, to solids. The same transmission of preference applies to substances, meaning that a pregnant woman who drinks or uses drugs passes the preference to her foetus.

Logically, this principle applies to the placental transference of obstetric drugs. "

― Antonella Gambotto-Burke , Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine