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Pregnant mothers, please take note. Smoking is harmful to yourself and your unborn child. So if you are a smoking mum-to-be, please quit immediately with the help of a professional. I am sure you want the best for yourself and your child so quit smoking would be the first step to become a better mother. Do you know why you need to quit smoking? Here are the reasons why:

According to research, a pregnant woman is likely to suffer pregnancy complications if she smokes. The complications include premature delivery, low-birth-weight infant, still birth and sudden death infant syndrome. Babies with low weight is the most common cause of sudden death. Babies exposed to second hand smoke are also prone to sudden death.

When the babies or infants are often exposed to the cigarette’s smoke, they are at higher risk to develop asthma, have weak lungs, prone to sickness and have chronic coughing and wheezing.

Nicotine is found in cigarette and when you smoke, the nicotine might constrict the blood vessels and prevent the blood from transferring the oxygen to the infant, causing the infant to suffer cardiovascular problems. The nicotine is also found in breast milk so you are feeding poison to your baby after born.

So, if you love yourself and your baby, quit smoking now and live a better life taking good care of your baby instead of killing both you and your baby.

Read more about the link between pregnancy and smoking, smoking during pregnancy and the ways to stop smoking during pregnancy.

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Children of mothers who had smoked while pregnant ran double the risk of developing asthma before the age of four. A new study from Swedish Karolinska Institutet shows the consequences of smoking during pregnancy.

It is a well known fact that babies are harmed by tobacco smoke in numerous ways, but it has always been difficult to separate the effects of the mother smoking during pregnancy and passive smoking after birth.

A new study from the Swedish institute Karolinska shows that smoking during pregnancy increases the chances of the child developing asthma. The study showed that children of mothers who had smoked while pregnant ran double the risk of developing asthma before the age of four. There was a clear correlation between the number of cigarettes smoked and the risk of developing asthma.

The study also showed that passive smoking in early childhood increases the risk of allergy. Four-year olds who were exposed to tobacco smoke when they were two months old had allergy antibodies against one or more allergens in the blood, which were more often than their coevals from non-smoking homes.

Smoking during pregnancy is least common amongst the higher educated. Of the 4 000 interviewed mothers, 7 per cent of those with university-level education said that they had smoked while pregnant. Among those who had opted out of tertiary or secondary education, the corresponding number was 20 per cent. The data applies to mothers of children born between 1994 and 1996.

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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.

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