At the moment when the pregnant woman takes a puff, toxic substances immediately enter the amniotic fluid through the placenta. They become turbid, at the same time there is a spasm of the cerebral vessels and oxygen starvation in the child. The result is a premature and difficult birth, a newborn’s body weight of up to 2500 g, short stature, reduced head circumference, chest circumference, and frequent health problems.
Video consultation: Is it possible to smoke pregnant
The harm of smoking in the early stages
This is the most critical period of the fetal life. In the first weeks, all vital organs are at the laying stage. Their development depends entirely on a sufficient supply of nutrients in the placenta. But together with the necessary vitamins, minerals, tar, nicotine and other poisons come. This extremely negatively affects the further development of organs and systems.
- One pack of cigarettes a day provokes fetal death and increases the risk of having a baby with an extremely low weight by 30%;
- A pack of cigarettes in combination with alcohol increases the risk of miscarriage by 4.5 times;
- A 30% increased risk of sudden infant death. Especially the twins;
- Excessive doses of nicotine before conception 10 times increase the risk of miscarriage.
FROM 4 weeks the pancreas, intestines, genitals, vision and smell, limbs are formed. It is not surprising that it is precisely in pregnant smokers that subsequently most often blind, deaf children are born, and even with pathology of the development of legs and arms.
The effect of smoking in late pregnancy
Smoking in the second half of pregnancy can provoke severe toxicosis in the mother. The child develops oxygen starvation, which in the future will lead to endless bronchitis, bronchial asthma and acute respiratory diseases.
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Consequences of smoking
Pathology of the placenta
Carcinogenic toxic substances and resins immediately penetrate the placenta, cause irreversible changes in it. This leads to pathology of fetal development. miscarriages, stillbirths.
Hypoxia
Oxygen starvation leads to a delay and pathology of the development of the nervous and respiratory system of the baby. In the future, this will be manifested by high incidence, coughs, pneumonia, the formation of blood clots in the brain.
Nicotine addiction tendency
In the vast majority of cases, with a mother who did not find the strength to get rid of nicotine addiction, children get involved in cigarettes very early. Back in high school. Statistics also say: daughters of such mothers are 5 times more likely to become addicted to drugs.
Reproductive system problems
Sons suffer the most because nicotine inhibits sperm production. They become sedentary, have an abnormal shape. Tobacco causes cryptorchidism. This is when the testicles do not fall into place. It also destroys the Y chromosome. If you do not need an heir and do not want to have grandchildren, then smoke to health.
Developmental defects
There is a very high risk of giving birth to a baby with heart disease, pathology of the nasopharynx (cleft lip, cleft palate), strabismus, anomalous mental development, Down syndrome.
Great risk of sudden infant death
Proven fact: smoking during pregnancy provokes 19% more cases of fetal freezing, 30% stillbirths and 22% more sudden deaths in the perinatal period.
How will smoking in the period of pregnancy affect a child in the future?
- One third of children develop diabetes before adulthood;
- Another third are obese already from school;
- Children more often than others are behind their classmates in school, it is much more difficult for them to learn to read and write;
- Hyperactivity, restlessness, often mental problems;
- Oxygen starvation provokes a delay in mental development;
- High risk of suicidal tendencies from a very young age;
- Addiction and antisocial behavior is more common than in children whose mothers had a healthy lifestyle before and during pregnancy;
- Girls are much more likely to become infertile, and boys are often diagnosed with sperm pathology, their immobility.
The effect of second-hand smoke on a child
Even if the future mother does not smoke, but is often in a smoky room, she and the baby in the womb are also in danger. Passive smoking can cause many health problems.
- Improper fetal development.
- Anomalies in the structure of internal organs.
- Premature birth.
- Stillbirth.
- Inadequate body weight of the newborn.
- Delay in the development of the baby.
- Frequent and chronic bronchitis.
- Asthmatic attacks.
- Heart disease.
- Leukemia.
- Frequent acute respiratory infections.
- Diabetes.
Show this list to your husband or immediate family who smokes. Are they ready for similar problems in the unborn child? And after the birth of passive smokers will be one more. Even tightly closed doors to the balcony will not become a reliable obstacle to smoke. One hour in a closed room where smokers are equal to a whole pack of self-smoked cigarettes. For this reason, think twice before going to the cafe where smoking is allowed.
The effect of smoking on the body of a pregnant woman
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- Toxicosis in the early and late stages;
- Complications of pregnancy and childbirth;
- Problems with the gastrointestinal tract;
- Vitamin C deficiency, which leads to metabolic disorders;
- Decreased immunity;
- Depressive states;
- Phlebeurysm;
- Dizziness
- Migraine.
How to prepare for pregnancy if a woman smokes for a long time
Nicotine is completely excreted one year after the last cigarette smoked. Therefore, if you want to have a healthy baby, quit smoking right now. Take multivitamins, sign up for a gym - it is very important to prepare the muscles and the whole body for bearing and childbirth. It will not be superfluous to go to a balneological resort and undergo a full course of treatment with mineral water. Pass all analyzes, pass fluorography in advance. Try to eat healthy, freshly prepared food.
Nicotine adversely affects not only the female body. Male potency also suffers from this poison. If you want to have healthy and strong offspring - quit smoking with your husband or partner. Experience has shown that quitting smoking is much easier if the couple does it at the same time.
Unlike the female, the male body recovers much faster. It is enough for a man not to smoke for 3 months to completely get rid of nicotine in the blood.
A few tips for quitting smoking
- Do not drop sharply;
- In the first week, halve the number of cigarettes smoked;
- In the second week, go to the lightest;
- Take a few puffs and put out the cigarette. This will help reduce nicotine starvation;
- In the third week, smoke only as a last resort;
- If you follow the previous tips, in the fourth week you will not want to smoke.
The health of the unborn child is completely in your hands. Believe me, it’s much easier to give up cigarettes than to constantly wander around hospitals and collect money on social networks for complex and expensive operations for a seriously ill baby!
Video guide: The harm of smoking during pregnancy (doctors' opinion)
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I believe that smoking during pregnancy is extremely undesirable and I do not believe any excuses, they say it is better to continue smoking - so the child will be better than smoking and quitting. A woman wears a child for 9 months - this can be endured, because the child suffers in the first place. I smoked at the time I learned about pregnancy. And the thought that I didn’t not for one minute let me doubt the need to quit smoking - I abruptly quit smoking and gave birth to a healthy girl. After all, a baby of 8 months did not breathe nicotine. My husband, by the way, also quit smoking.
Apparently smoking during pregnancy does not positively affect the health of the unborn child. The immune system suffers, the child is born with mental underdevelopment, that is, often lags behind in his intellectual and mental development from his age. Including physiologically, it is also born weak and lags behind its peers. Due to a weakened immune system, there is a predisposition to a mass of diseases. A friend of mine, who actively smoked during pregnancy, had a son with a heart defect.
My close friend is a smoker with great experience, and she smoked quite a lot, more than a pack a day, she became pregnant two years ago. Now her baby is more than two years old, and so from the very beginning of her pregnancy she did not see her with a cigarette. He says that when she saw 2 strips, she immediately threw the pack into the toilet and didn’t even draw anymore, as something clicked in her head. So, dear girls, these are all excuses about addiction, etc. Common sense needs to be had. I myself - the chicken is still the same, but poisoning my baby is completely different. If you do not care about your health, then close and dear people need to be protected.
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