does anyone know anyone who smoked while pregnancy and if so how did their babys turn out?

Question

everyone says smoking while pregnants bad for the baby which i agree with but im taking a poll does anyone know someone who smoked during pregnancy. how many cigs did they smoke and how did their babies turn out. any problems with them. serious and honest annswers only please

Answer 1

You should never smoke while pregnant, On to the following...


Numerous scientific studies have established that smoking by pregnant women, or their regular exposure to secondhand smoke, dramatically increases the risk of a range of health problems both to themselves and their offspring, including the following:

spontaneous abortions
ectopic pregnancies
other birth and delivery problems
fetal brain damage
growth retardation/low birth weight (Babies of smoking women average 6 oz. Less at birth than babies of nonsmoking women.)
lower or higher than normal infant blood pressure (dep. on gestational age at birth)
problems requiring neonatal intensive care
infant death from perinatal disorders; sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
cancer-causing agents in infants' blood; potentially carcinogenic genetic mutations; and childhood leukemia
mental retardation
respiratory disorders during childhood
eye problems during childhood
Attention Deficit Disorder
other learning and developmental problems
behavioral problems even into the adolescent years
smoking during adolescence
various adult health problems including obesity
Smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke during pregnancy causes more serious risks to the survival and health of fetuses, newborns, and children than using cocaine during pregnancy. It is also a much more pervasive problem. Roughly one-fifth of all pregnant women, or over 400,000 per year, smoke -- and many more non-smoking pregnant women are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke because their husbands, partners, other housemates, or coworkers smoke.

Smoking by fathers prior to conception may also increases the risk of childhood cancers and mental retardation among their offspring, even when the mother does not smoke at all.

Parental or other household smoking after birth also increases the chances that children will suffer from smoke-caused coughs and wheezing, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, potentially fatal lower respiratory tract infections, eye and ear problems, or injury or death from cigarette-caused fires. Each year, more than 280 children die from respiratory illnesses caused by their parents' tobacco use or from smoking-caused fires, and another 300 suffer from fire-caused injuries. According to a 1997 study, exposure to secondhand smoke also leads to over 500,000 physician visits for asthma and 1.3 million visits for coughs, and to more than 115,000 episodes of pneumonia, 14,000 tonsillectomies or adenoidectomies, 260,000 episodes of bronchitis, two million cases of otis media among children, and 5,200 tympanostomies.

Research studies estimate that the direct additional health care costs associated just with birth complications caused by pregnant women smoking or being exposed to secondhand smoke could be as high as $2 billion per year. More broadly, parental smoking has been estimated to cause direct medical expenditures of more than $4.5 billion per year to care for smoking-caused problems of exposed newborns, infants, and children, as well as to treat birth complications



When a woman smokes the chemicals in the smoke enter her bloodstream and pass directly into her baby's body.

The effect of nicotine and smoking on your body…..AND YOUR BABY is extremely damaging.

Nicotine is a poison and taken in large doses could kill a person by paralyzing breathing muscles.

Resting heart rate of smokers increases 2-3 beats per minute.

Nicotine lowers skin temperature and reduces blood flow in the legs and feet.

Tobacco smoke contains at least 43 carcinogenic (cancer-causing) substances and thus is a direct cause of many kinds of cancer.

Cigarette smoke includes: tar, nicotine, cyanide, benzene, formaldehyde, methanol (wood alcohol), acetylene (the fuel used in welding torches), ammonia, and the poisonous gases nitrogen oxide and carbon monoxide, which reduces the amount of oxygen available to the baby.

Smokers have a lower level of proper lung function than do non-smokers.

Studies indicate that the blood vessels in the umbilical cords of babies whose mothers smoked show the same types of damage seen in the blood vessels of adult smokers.





Babies exposed to nicotine in utero show behavioral abnormalities similar to those exposed to illegal drugs during pregnancy, according to a Brown University study of 56 babies at 48 hours old. The babies were "overly excitable, tense, showed signs of central nervous system and gastrointestinal distress, and possible withdrawal symptoms."

— Pediatrics, 111: 1318-1323.

Answer 2

I smoked while pregnant. I cut drastically back from almost 2 pack per day, to only 3 smokes per day (morning noon night). My daughter turned out perfectly fine. I had some complications in pregnancy, I would not dialate the full 10 centimeters, whereas I only dialated 4 centimeters, so I had to have a C-section performed. But, all went well.

Although my cousin smoked while pregnant, she smoked 1 1/2 pack a day, her daughter was born with ceribal paulsy, downs syndrome and she cannot walk and is deaf.

So there are two sides of smoking while pregnant. If I ever have another child, I will quit altogether just so that I can actually prove that smoking cause me to have to have a C-section.

Answer 3

Bad idea. My cousin had a baby a week after I did and she smoked the whole time. Even now, at 2 1/2 her son is half the size of my little boy and seems much younger (he is small) Smoking can seriously harm a baby. While it may not affect some, do you really want to find out the hard way? A few puffs now could never be worth a lifetime of troubles.

Answer 4

Well, i have heard of this awful thing, but never have i known someone smoking while pregnant. I have seen pictures of babies on the Internet and in books for my science report, and most are in the "box". And eventually those babies die. I truly do not understand why some mothers are careless enough to smoke when they are about to have a baby. I have to little nephews and i love them with all of my heart. If my sister had smoked while pregnancy, (she doesn't smoke) then my nephews might not be here with me today. I feel extremely sorry for those babies who have to go through a series of unfortunate events because their mother was careless enough to smoke in pregnancy.

Answer 5

yes, i smoked with all three of my pregnancy, and all of my children turned out perfect, no side effects, no birthdefects, nothing. my aunt and most all of my friends smoked with theres as well and all of there children turned out fine. Yes there are some cases out there where the child was born with asthma or some kind of respitory problems but it donesnt happen in all cases. yes you shouldnt smoke while pregnant, but even people who dont smoke while pregnant have children who are born with problems, although people try to blame it on second hand smoke, which i think is a bunch of crap, alot of it has to deal with heratitary. i mean if cancer runs in the family then you are subseptible to getting cancer, just like diabetes and other things that you can get. so everything should not be blamed on smoking or smokers. i could go on for hours but wont . Have a Good Day

Answer 6

Smoking nearly doubles a woman’s risk of having a low-birthweight baby. In 2002, 12.2 percent of babies born to smokers in the United States were of low birthweight (less than 5½ pounds), compared to 7.5 percent of babies of nonsmokers.2 Low birthweight can result from poor growth before birth, preterm delivery or a combination of both. Smoking has long been known to slow fetal growth. Studies also suggest that smoking increases the risk of preterm delivery 37 weeks of gestation). Premature and low-birthweight babies face an increased risk of serious health problems during the newborn period, chronic lifelong disabilities (such as cerebral palsy, mental retardation and learning problems) and even death.

The more a pregnant woman smokes, the greater the risk to her baby. However, if a woman stops smoking by the end of her first trimester of pregnancy, she is no more likely to have a low-birthweight baby than a woman who never smoked. Even if a woman has not been able to stop smoking in her first or second trimester, stopping during the third trimester can still improve her baby’s growth.

Answer 7

I agree with ButterfliesR. I am in my late 40's and have smoked for over 30 years. I also am a labor and delivery nurse with 22 years in the field... I am also a mother. Smoking while pregnant is not healthy for the baby or the mother. Smoking while not pregnant is not healthy. I grew up with parents and grandparents that smoked and my children grew up with me smoking and now my daughter-in-law smokes around my grandchildren. Yes. I am hypocritical when I tell patients to quit smoking because of their baby. Part of life and my job. I would suggest a woman try to quit, at least slow down, because it does help with blood flow to the unborn child.

Answer 8

My mother smoked about a half a pack a day when she was pregnant with me...she also smoked marijuana a few times, and i was born fine but later on i developed asthma. Smoking isn't a good idea. I just found out i was pregnant and i'm a smoker, but i'm trying to quit. the doctor told me not to quit cold turkey just to wean myself off or my body would experiece withdrawals which could put my baby at risk.

Answer 9

I smoked while pregnant. I felt extremely guilty and confessed to my ob/gyn. He said that if I was having that much trouble quitting, than don't quit. I only smoked about 3-5 cigs a day. I would allow myself no more than that. My daughter was born 14 days past the due date and weighed 9lbs. 6oz. which is a very big baby. This is remarkable only because the precautions of smoking while pregnant are premature birth and low birth weight. Like I said, she was overdue and big. I don't think smoking is harmful in moderation. My daughter is living proof. Good luck!

Answer 10

My best friend smoked while she was pregnant. Her son was born in April of '05 very healthy. He weighed just over 6 lbs.and he has had no problems. Her doctor told her that stopping smoking during pregnancy is more dangerous than smoking because it is too stressful on the mother. However I wouldnt recomend it because I have heard of negative affects on the baby.

Answer 11

I smoked with my first 2 pregnancies. I smoked like a pack a day and both my kids turned out fine.

First one was 6lbs 15oz, and the other one was 7lbs 15oz, but with the second one, i quit smoking at 6 months along and havent started back since.

I am pregnant with my 3rd one and still a non smoker.