Wednesday 8 May 2013

Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant


Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant

► Lower birth weight. Smoking reduces the amount of blood that reaches your placenta starving your baby of the food it needs to grow.

► Smoking makes it harder to get pregnant in the first place by lowering your fertility.

► Once pregnant, smoking makes miscarriages more likely.

► After birth, babies born to smoking mothers cry more as they
crave the nicotine you do in cigarette smoke.

► Babies born to smoking mothers are more likely to die unexplained (SIDS), and to suffer from asthma and ear infections when older.

► Children of smoking parents are more likely to smoke too.

Smoking is dangerous to you AND your baby in pregnancy.


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