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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...