how bad does smoking if ur preg affect the baby?

Answer 1

Every woman I've ever known in my life who smokes & became pregnant never stopped smoking when they were pregnant & had perfectly healthy babies. I used to see woman smoking while they were pregnant & get furious & want to slap them. I just didn't understand how any woman could smoke while pg. Then when I became pg I learned how extremely difficult it is to quit!! Of course nonsmokers are going to give you a VERY hard time about smoking because they do not understand.
I'm not telling you it's ok to smoke while you're pg, I'm just telling you my personal experience.
Actually, my doctor wasn't even too hard on me about smoking. He told me to just try to keep it under 10 cigarettes a day.
Someone mentioned nicotine being a drug, so is caffeine, but do people rant & rave about pg women having it?

Answer 2

my mother who was a heavy smoker when she was pregnant with me 21 years ago asked the same thing to her doctor. Her doctor told her trying to quit while pregnant is stressful and does more harm than good. She told my mother to cut down, and she did, she smoked about a half a pack a day, I was born a very healthy baby. I didn't even get my first cold until I was 3 years old.

Plus I'm not a smoker but I can work in bars and the smoking section of restaurants and the smoke not brther me at all. Also the fact that I've been my mom puffing on the cancer sticks have made me never want to touch a cigarette. I think kids who smoke to be cool are fools!


Good luck and God bless

Answer 3

Smoking in pregnancy can affect your baby, not just before birth, but also in the future. Here are some of the effects of smoking while pregnant.


Smoking raises the levels of carbon monoxide in your bloodstream. This reduces the amount of oxygen available to your baby.

When you smoke, harmful chemicals reach your baby.

Nicotine constricts the blood vessels on your side of the placenta, which means oxygen is passed over less effectively to the baby.

The result is the baby grows less well than he might have done, and he'll be born lighter than otherwise. This might make a great difference to his health at birth.

There are also effects on brain development and on the general health of your baby, which have been shown to last into childhood, and even beyond. There is also a great deal of evidence that men who smoke when their partners are pregnant also affect the baby's health - whether or not the woman smokes herself.

Answer 4

So bad its not worth chancing!! Smoking can lead to low birth weigh which can cause problems in itself. It also can increase the risk of SIDS. And as the child gets older they can have a lot of breathing problems such asthma.

Another thing to remember...not only is a pregnant woman smoking dangerous it is also just as dangerous to be around secondhand smoke even if the pregnant woman doesn't smoke herself.

Best bet is to not smoke and avoid being around it as much as possible.

Answer 5

There are many, many stats on the bad effects of smoking while pregnant. It's NEVER good for you, however I smoked with all 4 of my children (ages 22 to 30) and they are all healthy grownups. I think drinking in a much bigger problem than smoking. That's just my opinion, though.

Answer 6

it does affect the baby .please don't tell me u one of the ones who smoke when ur pregnant. it real bad i think u know the answer to the question.i don't mean this in a bad way, cause I'm no 1 to judge but please don't do that to a baby who did not ask to come into this world.
Take care and stop the smoking.
God Bless.

Answer 7

THIS MUCH!!!
Smoking During Pregnancy: The Risks to Our Children
When a woman continues to smoke during pregnancy, the risks to the unborn child are great. These statistics come out of the 2004 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking*:

* Research has shown that women's smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications, premature delivery, low-birth-weight infants, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
* The nicotine in cigarettes may cause constrictions in the blood vessels of the umbilical cord and uterus, thereby decreasing the amount of oxygen available to the fetus. Nicotine also may reduce the amount of blood in the fetal cardiovascular system.
* Nicotine is found in breast milk.
* Babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy have lower birth weights# Low birth weight is a leading cause of infant deaths, resulting in more than 300,000 deaths annually among newborns in the United States.
# In general, pregnant smokers eat more than pregnant nonsmokers, yet their babies weigh less than babies of nonsmokers. This weight deficit is smaller if smokers quit early in their pregnancy.
# Smoking by the mother causes SIDS. Compared with unexposed infants, babies exposed to secondhand smoke after birth are at twice the risk for SIDS, and infants whose mothers smoked before and after birth are at three to four times greater risk.
# Mothers' smoking during pregnancy reduces their babies' lung function.
# In 2001, 17.5% of teenaged mothers smoked during pregnancy. Only 18% to 25% of all women quit smoking once they become pregnant.
# Smoking by children and adolescents hastens the onset of lung function decline during late adolescence and early adulthood.
# Smoking by children and adolescents is related to impaired lung growth, chronic coughing, and wheezing.

Answer 8

Nicotine, is a drug! when you inhale, you'r passing all that nicotine to your' baby!! Please stop smoking! He could born with a deffect!!