Thread: Smoking during pregnancy

Smoking during pregnancy appears to raise the risk of miscarriage or premature labor. But the primary danger is hindered fetal growth. Nicotine depresses the appetite at a time when a woman should be gaining weight, and smoking reduces the ability of the lungs to absorb oxygen. The fetus, deprived of sufficient nourishment and oxygen, may not grow as fast or as much as it should.

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Yes smoking is bad, however you'll find most clinicians will refrain from asking women to quit during pregnancy, due to the stress the mother then goes through. Yep, i'm an ex smoker, and yes the withdrawals might only last 2 weeks, it's the psychological pressure that is the hardest issues to over come, ruminating thoughts, habitual cycles involved with smoking.

Step 1, quit before you decide to be impregnated

Step 2, already pregnant, if you can quit fantastic, if you know you can't, then don't

Step 3, pregnant and smoking, don't read this thread

i never stopped, and niether did my mum and she had 13

things happen for a reason and smoking during pregnancy makes no differance

your right shine73 they do not pressure you to stop because of the stress

My mum did, my ex did with my first son, my wife did with our daughter, my wife wanted to quit and tried (stress!), it was me who told her to stay smoking. I think in this day and age, if it's only smoking women are doing when pregnant, then horrah, .....as the meth heads, and the alcoholics around doing it when preggy is truly sickening.

Originally Posted by whoknows

niether did my mum and she had 13

My gawd!!! Did you follow in her footsteps haha :shock:

no! are you mental LOL

3, 2 here in this world and 1 that just came and said hello and left

Yer 13 would be a bit full on eh,

I had a sister who came and said hello then left also.

I personally don't have a issue with smoking during pregnancy, I'm a social worker also, and the things I have seen with pregnant women, smoking is nothing. FAS, Drug withdrawall in babies, disabilities due to mothers refusal to stop lifestyle habits, hard drugs etc

The only reason I stopped smoking as I figured out I was paying a weekly sub to die miserably, maybe, perhaps. It was a mind set shift. I tried all the arm patches, chewing gum previously, none of that works unless your mind actually has a shift, plus the one thing I did that I believe is the key to sucess... I never told a soul.

That helped with the ruminating thoughts, as it's rather common for people to go "oh it must be hard, you must feel like one etc etc" of course it's hard, and I feel like one morons haha... so when nobody knows, nobody asks or cares... when they offer you one, all I used to say, was, just had one before.

Oh and a change of habits, keeping myself busy after dinner, and no coffee. And I looovvvvvveeeee coffee, think I made up for that one, I drink it extra strong now haha

smack babies nasty, my boy went to nursery with a little boy who was a smack baby and his jaw has never fromed properly so he can hardly speak

one bad habbit a time type idea, i do i agree with you you can fall for all the advertising pressure in the world, but unless your ready to do it you won't be able stop

coffee will be next LOL

Coffee, no way, coffee good haha

your making me jealousy
i can only have 1 a day or baby gets to grippy