WHY PREGNANT WOMEN SHOULDN'T SMOKE!

If more women had common sense and put more care and thought into getting and being pregnant they wouldnt even have to do studies to find out why smoking, drinking, malnutrition, drugs etc are harmful to the babies born to those women.

than again if those women had good mothers themselves who taught them common sense.... so i guess the means justifies the end.

Pregnant women shouldn't smoke because it can cause: still births, low infant birth weight, premature rupture of membranes, vaginal bleeding, premature placental detachment, increased risk of ectopic preganacy, preterm delivery, increase chance of birth defects and increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. And probably a hundred more things.

Not to mention it cuts oxygen to the baby off and fills the baby's little body with all those chemicals and poisions.

If you are not smart enough to know that your baby shares your body and everything you put in it, you are not smart enough to be having a baby.

amen sista

Now all you have to do is to get the husbands, boyfriends, and other family members if these women to not smoke. Second hand smoke is equally dangerous, especially when the pregnant woman is forced to be in the midst of it on a regular basis and that smoke and blood flow and oxygen restriction in her transfers directly to the developing child.

There's a young woman who works in this building who had a baby about, oh 7 or 8 months ago.

While VERY pregnant, she would stand outside several times a day, having a smoke break.
Unbelievable.

One day while waiting for the elevator she came up, and was obviously not pregnant anymore.
I asked about her baby, and with new mother pride gushed about her new daughter.
As we stepped on the elevator together, I asked as the doors were closing, "so why did you smoke while you were pregnant?" She had no answer, and it was a very long elevator ride for her.

Was she pissed at me? Probably. I don't care, that poor baby never was given the chance to speak for herself.

Now, I see her outside, with her child in the stroller (she brings the baby to work), smoking and walking her around the parking lot.

Bella Dea, I am rather surprised to hear about some of the other side affects smoking causes.

With side affects like that, who wants to smoke while pregnant!

Well, if you think about it BadBoy all the things that happen to YOU when you smoke will happen to the baby...the baby gets all the crap that the mother gets. If you do drugs, the baby comes out hooked. If you smoke, all 4000 chemicals pour into you and your baby's little body. Arsenic, ammonia, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, butane and cyanide are just a very few of the chemicals a pregnant mother puts into her baby when she smokes. How many mothers do you know who would feed their babies cyanide? If you smoke while pregnant, you do.

You mention vaginal bleeding and detachment of placenta and membranes.

How does smoking cause that?

smoking weakens your bloods ability to nurish membranes and tissue barriers. it also causes clots which keeps blood from getting where it needs to go. It also deprives your body of oxygen, ever notice the color of a heavy smokers skin?

I also understand that it affects folic acid in a women body.


WITH SIDE AFFECTS LIKE THESE, CAN YOU THINK OF A MILE LONG QUEUE OF PREGNANT WOMEN OUTSIDE A TOBACCOIST?