My bf is an ex heroin user and we want a baby

[bilbosgirl]

My bf has been clean a year now and we want to start a family. What, if any, effects will his old addiction have on trying to get pregnant, or our future baby?

[avisg]

bilbo ,thats
great what type of recovery care  is he getting?This is going to be very important for him to stay clean  .His stress level will go up the more pregnant you get and having a baby is stress on anyone but more so for a recovering addict.I am sure everything will good wonderfully ....congrats

[Hayley612]

so i may not have answers for this...but i am having the same problem with my boyfriend being an "ex addict"  i think i am pregnant...but i just need support with how to deal with his problem which i dont think is soo "ex addict" any more...please help me. i am willing to be open about all this...i just need someone to help.

[bilbosgirl]

Hi, thanks for your reply.  There's no way he'll go back, he's cut everything off and he knows if he so much as smokes a spliff or something that's the end.  I have two kids of my own and won't have that.  He's moved half way across the country, away from his old friends and has started a new life completely separate to his old one.  He's been very honest with me and is an open book, I'll know if something is up lol.  He told me he wasn't interested in sex at all when he was on, but his sex drive now is certainly not low which is good lol.  

Thanks again for your reply, it's really good to know things should be ok for us. :D

[122 Tactical Fighter Group]

There should be absolutely no problem.  One of the few effects that heroin does have would be to lower the sex drive in the user. Debatable whether sperm levels decrease......but that is during active addiction. After a year you are good to go - - and good luck  - - - but also keep in mind just how easily a person can slip back to that old lifestyle - -