I Will Quit Smoking – With Determination Anyone Could Do It!

Smoking during pregnancy can put the mother and the baby’s life in danger, and is also a risk factor for very preterm birth. It causes a number of problems, including preterm delivery, low birth weight and sudden infant death syndrome.

The pregnant mother’s smoking may also increase the risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, and severe vaginal bleeding. Smoking during pregnancy is causally associated with an annual estimated 32,000-61,000 low-birthweight infants and 14,000-26,000 admissions to neonatal intensive-care units (3), and should always be strongly discouraged.

According to researchers women who smoke seem more likely to have their babies prematurely. And prematurity, despite recent medical progress, is a hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely.

Reducing or quitting smoking during pregnancy decreases these risks. Smoking during pregnancy has an adverse effect on the development of the lungs of the infant. Nicotine and other harmful substances present in cigarette smoke can be carried to the baby through the placenta.

Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy had more than twice as much genetic damage as babies whose mothers did not smoke during pregnancy, even though these mothers all smoked less then 2 packs per day. The larger increase in genetic damage in these babies suggests that they may be more susceptible than adults to the adverse genetic effects of smoking. Babies whose mothers smoked at least 21 cigarettes a day were most at risk, being 78 percent more likely than infants of non-smokers to have a finger or toe anomaly. But even relatively light smoking – 10 or fewer cigarettes a day – boosted the risk by 29 percent.

Babies exposed to cigarette smoke may experience more colds, lung problems, and ear infections. Woman should not smoke while breast feeding because the chemicals in cigarette smoke can enter the breast milk.

The more cigarettes the mother smoke per day, the greater the chance of the baby developing these and other health problems. Never beleive it’s safe to smoke after your baby is born. The exposure to smoke increases his or her chance of developing a number of illnesses and problems like Asthma, Chronic coughs, High blood pressure, Frequent colds, Ear infections, Bronchitis and pneumonia.

Are you addicted to nicotine and pregant: Sit down and ask yourself, are the those cigarettes really worth the risk?
Isn’t it time to start doing something about it?

Quitting smoking makes both parents and their children healthier, not to talk about better role models for their children.

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