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334776 tn?1249968581

BE HONEST!!!!!!!!






ok so how many of you smoke? honestly!!!!!! while pregnant now, or while pregnant previously???and if so, aside from birthweight issues, have you been told that smoking can cause the placenta to not deatch and cause hemmoraging(sp?), or other things???

my ob has not mentioned anything aside from low birthweight, but the midwife i originally saw, gave me this loooooong run down of problems.....
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4906205 tn?1360810714
My mom a smoked through all of her kids um she there's 7 of us And none of us have problems we've all come out help you then a Ox my mama says
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4456827 tn?1363378247
So are you aware that when your baby cant be consoled the issue might be that its because it needs some nicotine. You are aware that cigarettes are addictive and these nine months your child will spend them getting hooked on cigarettes. So you will not give your child a cigarette outside of the womb, but there is a possibility they might want one. Starting out life going through withdrawal is not ideal. Not being rude just stating a fact.
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4928337 tn?1362751166
I am a non smoker and never have smoked.
My mother did smoke when pregnant with me though. I was not premature. But developed asthma in my first month of life. Had rsv as well as at 2 years old had to get tubes in my ears due to constant infection from her chain smoking in the house and car.
I still suffer from asthma. And am highly allergic to cig smoke.
My mother just turned 45 and quit about 6 months ago to better her health. She smoked since 15 years old. My husband smoked about 2 years and it made me severely sick. So it was not an option but to quit.
They both say its the best thing they have ever done. But also the hardest. I know all situations are different. And its not ok to me personally. But to say someone wants to intentionally harm their child is untrue. They are not they want the best outlook for their unborn child as everyone else does. They just suffer an addiction they have to fight off cravings not you. It is not easy.  
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I smoke
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I smo through my two previous pregnancies. I felt guilty everytime I got my fix =( But my babies came out a healthy weight, no asthma, in fact they're smarter and developing faster than most of my friends children. Though I wouldnt encourage anyone to smoke while pregnant or at all for that matter, I dont want you to feel bad that your havinga hard time...good luck hunn.
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The amount of people whose mothers NEVER smoked I know with allergies or asthma is unbelievable.. But of.course these things only happen, or.get picked on if your a smoker lol.. My mum heavily smoked with me & my sisters, not one of us has athsma or breathing problems. I hope none of the ladies judging smokers have eatin or dranken anything they say you shouldnt, cos ur baby will get an infection, premature, and possibly mentally retarded... Same thing hey? U should be having a go at the government for making these things legal and especially for selling to pregnant women.. Since is sooo harmful.. Id say if you werent a pre pregnancy smoker and u decide to take up smoking while pregnant then yeah ur a fukhead.. If its something youve done for years, no one knows what it feels like to try an stop a habit youve had for years, only u know how.bad it is..
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I dont condole any woman smoking while pregnant! I for one personally think you are just askin to harm your child. Low birth weight isnt the only issue also harmful to their lungs. Poor babies you should think about what you are doing to them not yourself anymore. I'm done venting! That's a very touchy subject for me
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I smoked up until 14 weeks I'm 17 now so I haven't quit very long
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I smoked for over 10 years and knew there was no way I would b able the quit. so when I found out I was pregnant I looked up electronic cigarettes online. I am now 16weeks and 3 days and haven't smoked a real cigarette in 15 weeks. its defo worth a try. I couldn't have stopped without it :-) good luck!
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I'm 27 weeks and still smoking I try to quit but I am having a hard time. Some days I don't smoke much other days its half a pack or more. I do daycare for 5 kids 8 and under 7 days a week and they are the definition of stress.... I live them but they drive me up the wall. I have 2 left and don't plan on buying anymore. It doesn't help that my man smokes and also their mom so even if I don't have any they do.
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3051094 tn?1342032647
I used to be a pack of day smoker for 5 years but with both my pregnancy I was forced to cut back. My boyfriend keeps the cigarettes in a safe and leaves one out for me everyday. I never keep extra cash Cuz if temptation hits there's a store right down the street.  But funny I did have $10 one time and went for a quick walk to the store. By the time I got there I decided I rather have food than a cigarette s pop I went next door to sonic and spent that money extreme tots and a strawberry ocean water. When I confessed to my boyfriend bout going to buy cigarettes but getting distracted by food he laughed and thought it was the funniest thing in world. I know smoking isn't good at all, pregnant or not and I hate when people when OK don't have this addiction criticize like everything  they do is right. People d OK by understand how hard it is to quit and for some it's harder than others. But I do aknowledge that even my one a day is bad for baby and I'm not trying to justify it to be right but I used cigarettes to break a 7 year addiction to meth. I been clean off Meth since January 2010. And honestly if smoking keeps me from thinking bout dope I'll choose my one cigarette over relapsing any day. It strange very few people knew about my Meth addiction and I just admitted it in a forum for hundreds to see. But I know about addiction and I wish people weren't so judgments Cuz maybe I would have seemed help sooner with my Meth addiction....
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My first pregnancy I smoked through the whole thing just under a pack a day and my son came 3 weeks early almost 8 pounds. the only issue I have with him now he is four he was diagnosed with asthma a few months ago. I still smoke now in my second pregnancy and I am 5 weeks. I smoke just under a pack and i told myself when i got prego that I would quit but now I just can't seem to quit. I don't want my  second child to get asthma event tho my first came out perfectly healthy minus asthma at 4. But doc said that most kids get asthma when they r young and grow out of it. So i really want to quit but just can't. That last cigarette in my pack I say this is my last then I get stressed out and have to buy another pack. Just trying to quit is so stressful in itself. Idk what I'm gunna do. I do smoke lights so maybe I can get those all natural butts with no additives. I really did just want to quit all together. :-(
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I'm pregnant with #6. Smoked with 4 out of 5 of the pregnancies. No birthweight issues, they were 9.4, 7.7, 8.2, 8.13, &9.1. I was told the withdrawal is worse for baby than smoking. I'm smoking about half a pack a day of Newport reds, and am 9 weeks today with a healthy baby as confirmed on ultrasound at 7wk6days. Also, my other children were quite healthy, just the normal childhood illnesses except for 1, who had a liver problem not related to my smoking.
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I was told by my obgyn not to quit smoking right away, bc the baby is already addicted and would cause me to get sick. But, ended up going down to a half a pack a day.. really all depends on your doctor.
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I've never smoked in my life, but my aunt last year didn't slow down or stop for her pregnancy and her baby was very healthy, normal and normal sized.
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I just finaly quit at 23 weeks i cut down when i found out i was pregnant to about five a day i use to smoke a little more than a pack, but everytime i lit up i felt soooo guilty, i couldnt understand how i did it cold turkey with my daughter,and just couldnt with this one. Well i was reading that this is the time his lungs start to develope and that was it for me. I guess iv screwed up mine enough, its only right not to screw his up. Anyway good luck ladies, its a daily struggle but its worth it!  May we all have beautiful healty babies
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400885 tn?1297698918
How sad to read all of this. I've got one luck baby I would NEVER do that too.
But yes I do know some people who smoke while pregnant.
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403255 tn?1278813266
I think that I would never do anything that could harm my baby(ies) considering the risks already out there from doing everything right.

However, smoking is an addiction and it is not that easy to quit. If I was in this situation I would have taken steps to quit BEFORE I started TTC. I have heard of Midwives telling mothers not to change their internal environments too much because this can disturb the natural balance of things.

I guess what I'm saying is that I don't know the right answer but what I do know is that after my M/C I found it very hard to watch pregnant mothers smoking and drinking or hearing about mothers doing such things when I had tried to do everything right and I lost my baby :(

I admire those of you that have been honest about smoking though...
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I agree with Joy , there CAN sometimes be attacking when it comes to matters like these and I've only seen a few blunt opinions on people who feel strongly about it, although most people [such as myself] were comending your efforts for trying, atleast.
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No one is judging, just stating their opinions. I'm surprised because a topic like this can usually become a very heated debate/argument. You're TRYING and that is what matters.
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514574 tn?1213880340
I don't smoke but I'm sure it must be really hard to quit, nevertheless please don't do it while you are pregnant, the smoke gets in the placenta and it's like being in a bubble full of smoke, my friend smoked during all her 3 pregnancys all babies were ver low birthweight  and today they all have asthma. I am not trying to offend anybody I understand how hard it must be and I know most of you know the effects I just felt I should tell you this.
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334776 tn?1249968581
my girl friend here said she would find me a plaque like she has, it's gotlittle fire trucks onit, and it's wooden, and says respect the boys....and the big circle/cross out on it....well, i went to walmart and spent $30 on those gel odor absorbers...and i was able to only smoke *1* since i woke up around 1:30am( chris called, freaked me out cos he called from a coworkers nmbr hehe).....and i fought going and buying another pack, but eating mini pickles and ranch(my lifetime fave treat lol), and surprisingly it's helped with the *hand to mouth* deal.....my friend said eat cereal, cos for 15-20 mins, i'm sitting there doing the action repitiscously(BIG sp? lol), and she said it helps her if she can't smoke....
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366779 tn?1291343396
I don't smoke. Although I don't know how hard it is to give up because I never have. Although I used to have about 7 cups of coffee a day including v drinks at the gym, when I found out I was pregnant I immediately went cold turnkey on every type of caffeine..had a major migraine for 5 days..couldn't function..thew up and got over it. I mean, this is only a drink but I want to give my child the best possible start (had previous miscarriage). I can imagine giving up smoking is something like this but a bit harder. My brother smokes and I get really ****** if I'm watching t.v and I can smell his cigarette outside. I tell him to move away.
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508203 tn?1233234804
Apparently the receptors in your brain respond massively to the smell of smoke, so if you are trying to quit and you smell cigarette smoke you will have huge cravings!!! So you're right, if you get rid of the smell you will definitely crave less.

Even though I can't imagine smoking when pregnant, I'm lucky enough not to have a full addiction (very much social or boredom smoking) So it's easy for me not to smoke, my partner doesn't smoke (unless he's really drunk!!), so that also makes it much easy, there's zero temptation.

Here is some info, I think drinking probably has more health problems:

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a pattern of mental and physical defects which develops in some unborn babies when the mother drinks "too much" alcohol during pregnancy. The problem is nobody is certain just how much "too much" is.

A baby born with FAS, or even with the lesser Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAE), can have serious handicaps and therefore could require a lifetime of special care. There is even some research that indicates that women who plan to get pregnant should stop drinking before they even conceive.
Here are some of the problems:

Small body size and weight
Slower than normal development and failure to "catch up."
Deformed ribs and sternum
Curved spine and hip dislocations
Bent, fused, webbed, or missing fingers or toes
Limited movement of joints
Small head
Facial abnormalities
Small eye openings
Skin webbing between eyes and base of nose
Drooping eyelids
Nearsightedness
Failure of eyes to move in same direction
Short upturned nose
Sunken nasal bridge
Flat or absent groove between nose and upper lip
Thin upper lip
Opening in roof of mouth
Small jaw
Low-set or poorly formed ears
Organ deformities
Heart defects or heart murmurs
Genital malformations
Kidney and urinary defects
Central nervous system handicaps
Small brain
Faulty arrangement of brain cells and connective tissue
Mental retardation -- occasionally severe
Learning disabilities
Short attention span
Irritability in infancy
Hyperactivity in childhood
Poor body, hand, and finger coordination

Problems with smoking in pregnancy:

Smoking during pregnancy
Women who quit smoking before or early in pregnancy significantly reduce the risk for several adverse outcomes.

Compared with women who do not smoke—
Women who smoke prior to pregnancy are about twice as likely to experience a delay in conception and have approximately 30% higher odds of being infertile.
Women who smoke during pregnancy are about twice as likely to experience premature rupture of membranes, placental abruption, and placenta previa during pregnancy.
Babies born to women who smoke during pregnancy—
Have about 30% higher odds of being born prematurely.
Are more likely to be born with low birth weight (less than 2500 grams or 5.5 pounds), increasing their risk for illness or death.
Weigh an average of 200 grams less than infants born to women who do not smoke.
Are 1.4 to 3.0 times more likely to die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Smoking during pregnancy also increases the risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, and severe vaginal bleeding.

Smoking while pregnant puts both mother's and baby's life at risk. Currently, about 13 percent of pregnant women in the U.S. smoke during pregnancy. If all pregnant women stopped smoking while pregnant, there would be an estimated 10 percent reduction in infant deaths in this country, according to the U.S. Public Health Service. Smoking while pregnant should be a cause for concern. Cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 chemicals, with nicotine, tar, and carbon monoxide thought to be the most dangerous to the fetus.
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