Who smoked during pregnancy?

The child will have a very weak immune system, which could lead to cancer.

Speech development is delayed. They will start speaking late, and a speech therapist-neurologist will be needed in the future, plus a speech therapist, and there are also respiratory issues.

And who here rode public transportation during pregnancy, went to crowded places, got stressed, argued with their husband, ate the wrong foods, and OH MY GOD!!!!!! worked?!

So, since we have so little nerves and urban ecology, let's also add a damn list of toxic substances to our bodies. And we can also take some heroin and meth, carefully during pregnancy. Ecology, what's the big deal.

My mother has been smoking since she was 19 and continues to this day; she is now 56. She never stopped smoking, even during her pregnancies, and she had four of them. Yet, it hasn't affected any of us four; only one of my brothers has health issues, and that's due to a childhood injury.

That's awful... how unlucky for you.. what terrible genetics 😔

Apparently, it doesn't affect the fetus at all. I have two sisters, both smoked during their pregnancies, and all their children are fine—smart, quick, healthy elementary school students now. I was just wasting my breath lecturing them about the harms of smoking.

That's exactly what I'm talking about((( how can anyone carry a pregnancy to term in big cities... only homeless women and the poor do that! All pregnant women who care about their babies live in the Caucasus mountains, Switzerland, or Mars and give birth there too.

Many of my friends smoked during pregnancy, and all their children are healthy. I am a smoker, but I didn't smoke during pregnancy because of morning sickness.

I smoked. Knock on wood, the baby is healthy. But I hate myself for it. Don't smoke when pregnant, don't poison your child. By the way, I actually quit when I gave birth and haven't smoked to this day, but I couldn't while pregnant.

And passive smoking is just as harmful, so what now, should we not go outside?)

My mother smoked until the 20th week of her pregnancy with me because she didn't know she was pregnant (her periods were regular for four months). It didn't affect my health at all—I have a great immune system, always excelled in studies and sports. But she gave birth to me when she was 21. Maybe that played a role. Well, I smoke too—possibly because of my mother, and quitting was extremely difficult for me. I started smoking again after giving birth.

My friend smoked, and her children are wonderful, healthy, and rarely get sick. However, she never smoked more than five cigarettes a day. She really wanted to quit but couldn't manage to. Still, five cigarettes a day is not a whole pack...

Both friends smoked during pregnancy. Both have sons. One has vision problems, the other has a weak immune system.

An acquaintance smokes a lot. Her child is developmentally delayed and doesn't speak at all.

Many acquaintances of mine smoked during pregnancy, and all their children are healthy, strong, and developed well. But there's a friend who followed a healthy lifestyle and gave birth to an underweight baby with some heart issue. Of course, I'm advocating for smoking, the choice is yours, but still, you should try to quit.

Why do alcoholics and drug addicts have normal children? Could it be genetics?

My friend's daughter is an asthmatic.

I smoked during pregnancy. My daughter was born premature, weighing 1250 grams, and didn't start walking until she was one year and ten months old. In school, she was almost the smallest in her class. She was often sick. I blame myself for this! So never smoke.

Because they're like weeds... there are some that no matter how much you poison them, those bastards just grow and feel great, while cultivated plants wither and die.
During my pregnancy I didn't smoke, I had quit long before that, but I drank beer and champagne and ate everything (fried, smoked, salty). And everything turned out great for me.... My child is 1.5 years old, never gets sick, no allergies, etc.

Me, and many others too, of course))) So what? Are you a delicate flower?

The sister smoked - the niece seems quite healthy. She's such a calm girl. Ordinary. Did poorly in school - but I don't think it's related to smoking. Just a slacker like her mom. Her mother didn't pay much attention to her. They both focused on "art." Basically, the mother's main concern was that her daughter could draw well. So she ended up enrolling in a design school.

By the way, my sister's friend smoked constantly, and her daughter was born deaf. I don't know if it's related. Maybe it depends on how much you smoke. My sister tried to smoke less during pregnancy. She even tried to quit.

She also had her wedding right in the first trimester. Of course, she smoked at the wedding. I don't know about drinking. Maybe she allowed herself a little.

I know she drank a little wine when she was breastfeeding her daughter when she was 2 months old. She says it's no big deal, the baby sleeps better that way... My husband and I were horrified by that information.)))

I don't know about the statement.

About the statement.

I smoked. My daughter was born exactly on time, weight 3750, height 58. She hardly ever gets sick. She's now in her 3rd year of university. And?
Throw stones at me, but all life experience shows that smoking doesn't affect a child's health. I can't find any correlation. Alcohol affects, smoking doesn't.

Kurila.

I want to share my mistake. I found out I was pregnant at 4 weeks. I was so shocked that at first, cigarettes lost their meaning, and images of the baby and my future flashed through my mind. I fully understood that smoking wasn't allowed. But mechanically, I went online to find something that would soothe me. And miraculously, I found information that it's okay to smoke until 9 weeks... supposedly, it's not as harmful to the fetus. This calmed me down, and I continued smoking. Of course, I switched to Kent Slims to reduce the harm. Then nine weeks passed... and I started searching again for justifications to soothe my habit. On one website, I found information that it's acceptable to smoke until 15 weeks, only after that it's not allowed... and that I still had the same chances of having a healthy baby as a non-smoker.

I kept smoking. By the way, at the 12-week screening, everything was fine. Then came 15 weeks... I couldn't quit smoking, so I continued. At 19 weeks, I went for the second screening and was told there was intrauterine growth restriction, oligohydramnios, and that I needed an urgent delivery. The fetus was already two weeks behind at that point. While waiting for the medical board and the doctors' expectant management, by 22 weeks, the delay was five weeks. The baby had everything formed correctly but simply wasn't growing and was underweight.

I will never forgive myself for this. I destroyed my child myself. Now, after everything that happened, I've quit smoking. But the guilt doesn't leave me. I feel terrible.

Don't smoke during pregnancy because the pain afterward is unbearable, and nothing can be fixed.

I smoked throughout my entire pregnancy, thinking I would gradually quit, but it didn't work out. I broke up with my boyfriend, and the stress was overwhelming. I smoked about 5-6 cigarettes a day. Of course, I blamed myself for it, felt extremely anxious, and read forums about it, but I just couldn't stop. On New Year's and my birthday, I even had a glass of wine, and once I even craved beer. But I made sure to take walks in the fresh air every day, both during the day and in the evening. By the last month, I was down to 1-2 cigarettes a day. The doctor also recommended I try a hyperbaric chamber to breathe in oxygen—it's not a cheap procedure, but I was so worried that I didn't even mind the cost. Now, my baby and I are 8 months old, and everything is fine. He was born weighing 3900 grams, a real little champion, and the delivery was easy—I gave birth quickly. As a friend of mine once told me, "Don't worry, you were already smoking before the pregnancy. Your body was used to it, and the baby was conceived while you were smoking. If you had started smoking during pregnancy, you would have likely harmed the baby." By the way, she smoked with both of her sons, and they are healthy adults now with no developmental or health issues.

, Did you have any issues with your blood pressure when you were smoking?

Hahaha 👍👍👍 I'm dying! I'm saving up for tickets right now

I smoke, can't quit no matter what, and it's pointless now anyway, 37th week. I smoke a pack a day, although the lightest ones. I don't rely on God! Ultrasound shows everything's fine, weight is even above normal. I smoked with my older one too, 10 years old, completely healthy boy.

I've always been a heavy smoker and genuinely enjoyed smoking, never considering quitting. I smoked for about 14 years, which is insane, honestly... but it is what it is))) During my pregnancy, I smoked until the 20th week, having one or two cigarettes a day with a sense of fear and the thought that I was committing a sin. But as soon as I felt the baby's first movements, I quit immediately—I couldn't continue. It's a very strange and awful feeling to inhale smoke containing at least 14,000 harmful substances while feeling the baby move inside you. The full realization of my pregnancy only hit me with those first movements. That's how it was. Smoking is an addiction, a disease. In the best-case scenario, a doctor is needed here. It's not right to judge expectant mothers who smoke; the best advice is to see a psychologist.

I've been smoking for a very long time! This addiction is destructive! During my first pregnancy, I smoked one cigarette a week, and during the second pregnancy, one cigarette a day. I scold myself when I buy cigarettes, but I can't do anything about it. Doctors claim that nothing directly reaches the baby; only the blood condition is affected.

Where did you even get the idea that this was because of smoking?
Many people have children with various pathologies and problems, and definitely not because of smoking. Smoke goes into the lungs. How does it get to the baby through the placenta.
Such nonsense you're writing
Sorry, honestly

Of course, doctors will say that smoking harms health, not just the baby's but yours as well.
They're doctors; they can't say otherwise.
How many doctors and midwives smoke their whole lives and smoked when they were pregnant?
And it didn't affect their children at all.
Let scientists take and conduct research to prove that a particular illness or pathology in a child occurred specifically due to the harm of tobacco smoke or nicotine.
Even the gynecologist always explains that the child is protected from everything in their placenta.
And when you smoke, the smoke goes into your lungs.
At most, it affects your lungs and your heart.
There's so much nonsense written on the internet, and everyone believes it all.
90 out of 100 people smoke; it's just that not everyone talks about it—some might be ashamed.
The healthiest people give birth to unhealthy children.
And no one thinks that there isn't always an explanation for it: genetics, heredity, environment, problems with you or your husband.
Even something as basic as one of the partners having chromosomes that don't all work properly.
But you blame it all on smoking.
If anything is harmful among bad habits, it's definitely alcohol, which enters your bloodstream.

Do not smoke during pregnancy; it harms the baby. I know this from my own experience.

I smoked, but it didn't affect the child at all; I really smoked very little—sometimes three cigarettes a day, or just one a month! My mother didn't smoke when she was pregnant with me, yet I was born with a very weak immune system and a congenital heart defect. 🤷‍♀️

How old were you back then?

What nonsense. The pregnant woman didn't smoke, and the child speaks poorly either way.

Same story here... I even knew a woman who was a Master of Sports, her husband was a karate coach too... So neither of them ever drank or smoked... Their daughter was born without a tibia, and one leg is 13 cm shorter than the other... But then you look at smokers... Their kids are running around and doing great.

Fucking dumb bitch

Fucking idiot? Your mom probably chugged vodka by the crate during pregnancy.

I don't get how someone can be such a sheep

How is your little one? Mine is exactly the same as yours, I gave birth a month ago and now I'm worried

So how did it turn out after giving birth?

Smoke? Ahahah clowness! Nicotine into the bloodstream.
Nicotine addiction. Nope haven't heard of it

And how is the baby doing now?

What about the frozen pregnancy?

I hope people can avoid my mistake and not listen to the "it'll be fine" mentality. I smoked a pack a day during pregnancy. I gave birth at 34 weeks (premature birth), and during delivery, they said: the placenta was in poor condition. The child was born seemingly normal (but only at first), then came developmental delays, motor alalia (started speaking at age 5), followed by rounds of psychiatric visits and a diagnosis of intellectual disability under question. Flat feet, complex astigmatism, amblyopia in one eye. The intellectual disability was not confirmed; he is now 8 years old (speech pathology persists). Do not smoke and do not delude yourself into thinking it causes no harm. Nicotine is neurotoxic and damages the fetal brain cells.

I agree with you, and I'm saying the same thing, like drinking alcohol or too much coffee, that already seems like nutrition reaches the baby, but cigarettes go to the lungs, where's the placenta where's the baby,, I think it's not logical that a cigarette interferes!