Smoking during pregnancy can affect your unborn baby. There
are several different problems that are included in dangers of smoking that can
create problems to your unborn baby and also for you.
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| SMOKING DURING PREGNANCY |
Smoking in pregnancy is associated with a large number of
adverse effects in pregnancy including:
- Intrauterine growth restriction
- Premature delivery
- Placental problems
- Smoking makes it harder for a woman to get pregnant.
- Women who smoke during pregnancy are more likely than other women to have a miscarriage.
- Smoking can cause problems with the placenta - the source of the baby’s food and oxygen during pregnancy. For example, the placenta can separate from the womb too early, causing bleeding, which is dangerous to the mother and baby.
- Pregnant couple Smoking during pregnancy can cause a baby to be born too early or to have low birth weight - making it more likely the baby will be sick and have to stay in the hospital longer. A few babies may even die.
- Smoking during and after pregnancy is a risk factor of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). SIDS is an infant death for which a cause of the death cannot be found.
- Babies born to women who smoke are more likely to have certain birth defects, like a cleft lip or cleft palate.
Facts
Cigarette smoke contains more than 2,500 chemicals. These
chemicals affect your unborn baby but the degree to which is still not clear.
Carbon monoxide and nicotine are the main causes of this. Carbon monoxide bonds
with hemoglobin to form a molecule that can decrease your baby’s likelihood to
obtain oxygen. Nicotine also is a cause which can cross through the placenta of
the unborn baby, where it increases the level of toxicity greater that the
level that you experience while smoking. The severity of smoking during
pregnancy is very high and can be fatal at times.
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Unborn baby
Facts state that a woman who smokes during pregnancy has the
chances of having an underweight baby and also the chances of giving birth
prematurely is higher leading to other serious health problems which include
cerebral palsy and mental retardation. Dangers of smoking also include the
baby’s chances of having congenital heart defects.
Pregnancy
complications
Pregnancy complications also may arise when woman have a
smoking habit during this stage. Issues in the placenta are one of the most
common pregnancy complication and also placental abruption. Smoking during
pregnancy also causes premature rupture of your membranes which make your baby
to be born prematurely.
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| Pregnancy Smoking |
Your baby after birth
Your baby has the chances of having side effects after birth
if you smoke regularly during pregnancy. This includes reduced lung capacity,
withdrawal symptoms and the higher chances of infant death syndrome also known
as SIDS. Also woman who smokes during pregnancy, may have their babies exhibit
excessive jitteriness and agitation which makes them feel harder to soothe and
comfort. SIDS is three times as higher if you smoke during pregnancy.
Considerations
There also times when you think that your unborn baby can
only get hurt by your direct smoking, but there is also more to it. Second hand
smoke i.e.; smoke from another person’s cigarette which you inhale can also
affect your unborn baby’s health massively. Your 20% more likely to give birth
to a low birth weight baby even if second hand smoke is your only exposure to
the harmful chemicals in smoke.
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