ONLY For Moms Who Smoked While Pregnant?

Question

I feel like the most horrible person in the world for smoking while pregnant.
It does me no good to hear women who didn't smoke while pregnant tell me how bad for the baby it is (I'm an educated person, so if you are one of these people, keep it to yourself).
It does me even worse to hear women who DID smoke tell me that everything turned out fine. In fact, no woman I know who smoke while pregnant (or the ones on 'answers') who have had complications.
SO... I'd like to hear from all 'smokers while pregnant'. My goal is to find out how many people out there DID have complications and what they were. Maybe this will cause me to STOP.

Answer 1

I am in the same boat. I am pregnant with my fourth child. I quit as soon as I found out with my first two children, and smoked with my third up until I went to the hospital - used those 2 days to quit and didn't smoke again. He was very healthy - I had him 3 weeks early because we induced him so he wouldn't be too big because my second one was almost 9lbs. Well, my third was already 6lbs 8oz when he was born. He would have been 10lbs if he had those 3 weeks to grow. And, I again can't stop smoking. I have cut way back and I just had my U/S for 20 weeks and he already weighs about 2 weeks bigger then he should. It is very difficult and I would never smoke while breast feeding or when my baby was little - I don't want him to smell me and to have problems once he is born.
The odd thing is - my second was my biggest and I didn't smoke with him and he was the one with breathing problems and had to stay a couple days in the hospital. He was Ok - but I have always had asma-like symptoms off and on with him and he is now 7.
I think that it is already in the plan of your life to have a baby turn out however it is suppose to turn out. I believe that all things are a part of a bigger plan that God has mapped out for our lives and if your baby is born with something wrong, then it was suppose to be that way and would have been like that no matter. That doesn't justify smoking, but I know first hand how hard it is to quit - especially cold turkey.
Good luck!

Answer 2

Smoking Whilst Pregnant

Answer 3

I Smoked While Pregnant

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I smoked while pregnant, but I did cut back. My ob said quitting cold turkey would be too stressful for my body. I cut back to about 1/2 pack a day. My daughter was born 1 month premature, but there was no proof it was caused by the smoking (although some of the nurses treated me like crap & said she was early because I smoked). My daughter had no complications, was breathing fine, and has never had problems (she is now a teenager). I'm not condoning smoking while pregnant, but I certainly understand. By the way, before she was born the Dr. said we'd be lucky if she weighed 5 lbs. She came out at 5 lbs. 12 ozs. Who's to say she would have been born early anyway? My OB had already said I was unable to have children, so she was a "miracle" baby to begin with! Good luck:)

Answer 6

I quit smoking during this pregancy (I'm now 28 weeks and I quit as soon as I found out, at about 4 weeks), but I had a previous pregnancy when I was 19 when I didn't quit. There were two pregnant ladies where I worked at the time and they both smoked so that kind of lulled me into thinking that I'd be ok. One of the ladies ended up having a healthy baby girl but the other had her son 3 months early and he was born deaf.

Then at 13 weeks of pregnancy I ended up having a miscarriage. It was a horrible experience, very, very painful and I ended up having to have a D&C because the miscarriage was incomplete. The emergency room doctor was very callous and unfeeling and was very rough with me while I was in a lot of pain and also suffering emotionally.

I don't know for sure if smoking was what caused my miscarriage but I do know that when I found out about my current pregnancy I sure as hell wasn't going to chance going through that again. I quit immediately, and I'm so, so glad I did. I know it's really, really hard to quit smoking but what better reason to quit is there than for your baby which is totally dependent on you right now and cannot get away from the chemicals that smoking introduces it to!! If you cannot quit to help your baby the chances are you may NEVER quit. I know for me that was scary in itself right there, I did not want to be a lifetime smoker! If it's any help, I know the first few days after I quit were the hardest. After that I started feeling better and thoughts of the baby were enough to keep me away from cigarettes.

I am not judging you in any way, I know it's hard, but if I can do it then you can too! I LOVED smoking, it was one of my favorite things!

Answer 7

I'm not hear to judge you or anyone else, I just really need to share this

I was born in 1982, my mother smoked all through her pregnancy with me. I have worn glasses since the age of 5, my prescription is almost off the scale at -8.75, with no real history of bad eye sight I was intrigued as to how I ended up there. I'm sure you can Google that type of thing so I'll leave it there. Fast forward to me at 32 with an almost 3 year old who has started to have a "lazy eye" (squint) the same as me, who will now need to wear glasses at some stage in the next 5 years for the rest of her life... They say it's genetic And they are right it's all very similar to my story the only difference - I don't smoke and never have.

My story continues just ran out of space

Answer 8

When I was pregnant my doctor told me to cut back to 5 a day. She said there was no medical evidence to show it was harmful. (Of course, I think that's crap). I quit the first month and started again.

There were complications, but it was not due to smoking. My daughter was born two weeks late and I had an emergency c-section. (I'm 4 ft 10"- wouldn't dilate- and she was trying to get out).

If you feel like reading about complications due to smoking will help you stop, google it.

I found the following complications:

SIDS (This is not fact, though)
Low birth weight
bronchitis or pneumonia in new borns
Asthma
Inner ear damage

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Answer 10

Hmm well I smoked occasionaly through my entire pregnancy with my 2 1/2 year old. He didn't have any serious complications due to smoking although he was born with the cord wrapped around his neck 3 times so he ended up in intensive care for a few days anyway. I'm pregnant again, about 10 weeks along, and so far I haven't quit, I've cut down and hopefully will completely quit soon but I also know several people who smoked the whole time and their kids were just fine. My grandmother, however, smoked and her second child died of SIDS. I guess I don't know if it was directly related since I never actually straight up asked her if she smoked while she was pregnant but we pretty much assume she did.