BE HONEST!!!!!!!!

[jesslee83]

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.....

[irrelevance]

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.

[JoyRenee]

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.

[marcardb]

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.

[jesslee83]

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....

[BUTTERFLYCOTTON]

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.

[yelloweskimo]

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.