Smoking and Pregnancy

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You’ve probably heard by now that smoking isn’t the best thing for you. Now that you are pregnant or are considering becoming pregnant, it’s even worse.

There are many things that we know about smoking during pregnancy. We know that the woman who smokes during her pregnancy has a baby who gets less food and oxygen than her non-smoking pregnant counterparts. We know that certain risk factors are increased for these women.

Now we even know that babies who have been exposed to smoking in the womb, even second hand smoke, have more genetic defects.

What happens is as the woman smokes the baby and the placenta are deprived of oxygen and nutrients. The placenta then spreads further throughout the uterus, becoming thinner (increasing the risks of a placenta previa and placental abruption), trying to seek out more surface area of the uterus from which to draw oxygen and nutrient.

article written by Robin Elise Weiss
 
ThomasB36 said:
pregnancy.about.com/cs/smokingpregnanc/a/aa111998.htm

You’ve probably heard by now that smoking isn’t the best thing for you. Now that you are pregnant or are considering becoming pregnant, it’s even worse.

There are many things that we know about smoking during pregnancy. We know that the woman who smokes during her pregnancy has a baby who gets less food and oxygen than her non-smoking pregnant counterparts. We know that certain risk factors are increased for these women.

Now we even know that babies who have been exposed to smoking in the womb, even second hand smoke, have more genetic defects.

What happens is as the woman smokes the baby and the placenta are deprived of oxygen and nutrients. The placenta then spreads further throughout the uterus, becoming thinner (increasing the risks of a placenta previa and placental abruption), trying to seek out more surface area of the uterus from which to draw oxygen and nutrient.

article written by Robin Elise Weiss
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I think there should be some type of law to prevent pregnant women from smoking. I consider it to be child abuse.
 
I know people that smoke and drink and quit them both once they got pregnant. They may have started up again since the child was born, but if they can quit for 9 months, anyone can…
 
By the way. Did you just quote yourself and respond to your own thread? 👍
 
I’m at stay-at-home-mom and I babysit a couple kids during the day. One is a three-year-old boy whose mom smoked. She’s currently in her third trimester of pregnancy with her second child.

I started babysitting the little boy in November, and after a week I told her I couldn’t stand the way he wreaked, and how badly my kids and I coughed. She was shocked because she couldn’t even smell her own stink so now I have extra clothes for him that I wash and change him in to.

Since then she has quit smoking :dancing: and her husband only smokes outside! :dancing: Of course, the smoke is still imbedded throughout their entire house, so he still smells, but not as badly, and I still change him daily.

Hopefully she will not start up again when the baby is born, and hopefully she will persuade her husband to quit. But even if they don’t, maybe their son will have memories of me changing his clothes in his memory, so that he will chose to not smoke as an adult.
 
ThomasB36 said:
I think there should be some type of law to prevent pregnant women from smoking. I consider it to be child abuse.
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The best plan of care with addictions as such, is to offer education to the mother and father (second hand smoke has demonstrated harmful fetal side effects as well) and medical quitting aids rather creating laws.
 
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