If somebody smoked 1 pack/day cigarettes for the first 3 months of pregnancy, what could that do to an unborn baby?
2007-02-25 06:23:10 · 9 answers · asked by james m 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Make it much smaller than it would normally be, it could be born with respiritary problems, not saying thats going to happen but these can happen through smoking.
2007-02-25 06:32:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I live with the guilt of smoking everyday, im 14 weeks pregnant and have found it to hard to quit. I smoke a pack a day... and wonder with every smoke...what its doing to my baby...Its been hard as i have had alot going on in my life. i am so ashamed of myself...... and so scared that i have damaged the baby ...
2007-02-26 19:47:26 · answer #2 · answered by jacqui 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing. Generations of women smoked while pregnant. Yes, there is a chance that that baby can be harmed. But it's a small chance. I recommend that people don't smoke at all, especially while pregnant but it probably won't do a thing.
I just read the post above mine and that person is ignorant. They said 'the lungs are so small why fill them with bad air'. That's not how babies breath in the womb. The don't breath any air until they are born. They get oxygen from the mother's blood.
2007-02-25 14:28:43 · answer #3 · answered by Tumbling Dice 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
My mom smoked her whole pregnancy with me, and I've never had health problems. My brother had really bad asthma as a baby and was in the hospital alot.
2007-02-25 18:09:00 · answer #4 · answered by aprilmommy06 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To many to count.
Low birth weight,
weak or damaged lungs
Can be linked to apnea
I feel its child abuse to smoke or drink or do drugs when pregnant. If the question was is it wrong to drug a race horse people would be all over it, saying that poor horse, what about that POOR BABY.
Call saint judes ask how many children they see with cancer. Ask how many of the moms smoked or were smoked around. Why risk a childs life.
2007-02-25 14:33:02 · answer #5 · answered by tammer 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2007-02-25 14:36:38 · answer #6 · answered by ricleigh 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
im 32 weeks pregnant and i still smoke. my baby is extremly active and very healthy. Hes not underweight or anything.
My mother smoked while pergnant with both me and my brother and were happy and healthy babies.
They get their oxygen from the mothers blood. But i don't recomend smoking a pack a day, thats to much. It will limit the amount of oxygen your baby will get.
2007-02-25 14:49:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
There are a whole lot of things that can happen b/c smoking decreases the amount of oxygen that the baby recieves.
2007-02-25 14:27:45 · answer #8 · answered by CookFrNW 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
im not sure in detail what it would do but for god sake please dont do it. there lungs are so small why would any1 want to fill them with bad air and make it difficult to breath that is like child abuse in my opinion have a heart and dont smoke.
2007-02-25 14:28:27 · answer #9 · answered by billabong3@btinternet.com 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋