smoking

[kaytastic10]

Thoughts on smoking till you guve birth. I am not looking for any lectures from any one im 32 weeks n 3 days i currently still smoke may 3 to 4 cigs a day anyone else smoke..... My baby healthy as a bird .

[BabyTurnip]

Im not going to lecture anyone of course, i understand how hard it can be to stop smoking but just because one person had a healthy baby doesnt mean itll theyre all goimg to be healthy. Theres a lot of research done on smoking and cancer and a lot of other things. And just one more tiny point here, if your body is addicted and you cant stop smoking with a snap of finger, dont you think its unfair to make a newborn go threw that? Because once that baby is off your blood supply itll go threw withdrawl at only a couple hours old. And anyone can try and find a defense to that but point is if baby is eating what your eating and getting all its nutrient from ur body.....then its getting all the junk too. Anyone can react however they want, im not attacking anyone im just pointing out something and you can take it or leave it. No matter what i really do pray for a healthy baby for everyone.

[honeymoonbaby]

Get the book " the easyway to quit smoking" by Allen Carr! Its a great book! I'm about 100 pages in& just know I'll be done smoking by the time I finish the book!

[heatherr322]

I undersrand that the mother smoked and baby came out woth these conditions but how do they know that smoking caused it? Because i feel like they could have had asthma and been slow developing even if the mom didnt smoke... Of course we will never know bit there are kids born like that where there moms didnt smoke... Not being defensive its just something that goes through my mind when people say its cause they smoked...

[aurora92]

I know two children with severe asthma and slow development (coordination) because their parents smoked. I know one child of a mother who smoked the entire pregnancy who is okay so far, but it's hard to tell as he's only two yrs. Not a lecture, just someone asked if anyone knew of children with negative outcomes.

[tabit414]

I smoked through my entire pregnancy with my first child and although perfectly healthy he was a bit cranky for a few days after birth. The doc told me that it was from withdraws from the nicotine. I'm 30 weeks with my second and all has been good with him too. I've tried to quit multiple times, but each time i do my bloodpressure sky rockets. I wish all of you trying hard to quit good luck :)

[heatherr322]

I also worry about my son developing asthma when he gets older and how guilty i would feel but asthma doesnt run in my fam on eother sides so i duno