What are the risks for babies when the mother smokes?

Answer 1

has a great chance of being a premature baby

Answer 2

Effects of smoking while pregnant


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 3

Well, there's a lot of carbon monoxide in cigarettes so everytime the mother inhales, rather than getting oxygen through the umbilical cord the baby gets carbon monoxide (the stuff that people kill themselves with when the let their car run in a closed garage).

That's just one.

Babies have higher risk for asthma, SIDS, ear infection, and more.

Answer 4

I'm a heavy smoker 2 packs a day and my child is the most perfect baby anyone could ask for. He was born 8 pounds, he is ahead of the NORMAL growth pattern. And all you out there saying for shame, my family and I do not smoke in the house since he's been born.

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Premature birth, low birth weight, and exposure to the same poisons the mother's body has absorbed from the coffin nail.

Answer 7

small birth weight and early labor it not good some have been linked to A D D

Answer 8

still- birth, lung problems,death,underdeveloped lungs,born premature,long hospital stay