Table 3 Responsibility

IIIA: Individual Pregnant Women

“…if they’re [BFRs] not labeled and I’m going to be exposed to them I could do some more research on my own to find out how it’s actually leaching out, what’s causing it…if I educated myself then I’d be able to…stay away from the things…” RP9

“Educating myself…on them [the risks of BFRs].” RP8

“You yourself are responsib[le] for yourself and your unborn child…” RP5

“…it’s on you to…protect your child, or to make… choices for your child.” RP19

“…it’s parents’ responsibility to try…to look out for their children and do the best they can to keep them healthy, particularly in the womb when they’re most vulnerable.” RP11

“…I just feel like I want to be in a bubble around them [my children], so I can protect them.” RP22

“…not unless I was the first to bring it up…cause… he [the health professional] may not know if they’re exposed to it.” RP20

“…I think the responsibility does come on the women to bring up her…concern and try and find other resources…where they can find more information.” RP19

“…I hope the doctor would bring it [BFRs] up but if I hear something that the doctor hasn’t said then I usually bring it up to him.” RP19

IIIB: Health Professionals

“…if they [health professionals] could only give more information [on BFRs] then we can make wiser decisions but not always leaving it up to the person to go find that information because sometimes they don’t even know, like, it’s a problem in the first place…” RP16

“I would believe that the healthcare provider could help give an insight to it…and unfortunately that’s the only person that’s going to be able to do it…” RP9

“I think your health professionals, definitely, should be relaying that information [of BFRs] to patients.” RP7

“…I think that the doctor should tell you about most of the things [such as the potential risks of BFRs] cause, like, I mean it’s sort of, you’re going to the appointment to because you’re pregnant.” RP2

IIIC: Government

“…if it was the government that regulated that it had to be on it [household products] then it should be the government’s responsibility telling everyone what it actually is.” RP9

“…the government…they should have regulations, they should be banning this stuff [BFRs].” RP11

“…Minister of Health and Longterm Care should have some impact about putting the stuff [information on the potential risks of BFRs] out there…” RP1

“…there should be studies going on, and government giving money to studies to make sure we can reduce the risk of any problems down the road…” RP7

“The researchers are going to come up with it [risks of BFRs]…but they don’t have the money to do the advertising…so…the researchers [should] first tell the government so the government should tell us…” RP9

IIID: Media

“[The media] brings it to the attention of a lot more people…so I think they would influence a lot of people.” RP12

“…I think the media should talk about this [BFRs]…” RP14

“…I think media should, would be a good option because by then you’re already into your pregnancy and I think it would be important to know about this [BFRs] beforehand.” RP7