Bad for both the health of the woman and the health of the child. But what specific consequences and dangers threaten the mother and child, how to refuse bad habit? Details in this article.
The essence of harm during pregnancy
Smoking during pregnancy is considered unacceptable. Children from such mothers are born with, weak and painful. Scientists have proven that a child born to a smoking mother, in most cases, becomes a smoker himself.
Substances that are harmful and dangerous to the body, which are in cigarettes, enter the body of a pregnant woman when she inhales a cigarette, all of them go directly to the baby through the placenta. The smoke entering the body has a fairly strong concentration. The child begins oxygen starvation due to spasms of the placenta. On the organs of an unformed child, the most harmful particles, up to radioactive, and do not allow the child to develop properly.
As a result, most children born to smokers are born underweight, lag behind in development from other children, and are at risk of dying in early age. Smoking negatively affects the completion of a pregnancy almost regardless of how many cigarettes a woman smokes.
The only way to give birth healthy child is to quit cigarettes before pregnancy. But, unfortunately, many mothers do not think about quitting smoking during pregnancy, despite the fact that in modern world Everyone knows how badly this affects the child. The warnings of experts are abstract and every woman hopes that she will be able to avoid harmful effects from cigarettes. But not everyone is lucky. Yes and mental addiction from cigarettes is so strong that it is almost impossible for a person to cope with it himself, this requires great willpower. Quit smoking sometimes does not help any of the listed methods, such as patches, chewing gum, sessions of a psychotherapist.
Should You Quit Smoking During Pregnancy?
Often, without giving up cigarettes before pregnancy, women continue to smoke during gestation. Not wanting to quit, people come up with excuses and philosophical excuses. main reason for such mothers, this is an argument that the stress of quitting cigarettes is much stronger than the harm of smoking when carrying a child. However, putting the facts together, it turns out:
- Smoking causes stress. The mother, who realizes that she is harming her child, becomes nervous and smokes more, she experiences fear and anxiety with every puff.
Of course, I apologize, but how they should be born, if there are pathologies, then internal ones, for example, heart disease or asthma ....
And why It’s her business, her child. My friend smoked all her pregnancy, fed smoked, now smokes, the child is normal. They told her that smoking is bad, you think she stopped smoking even more, she said that these conversations make her nervous.
And, you know, they are born the same as those of non-smokers, just smoking during pregnancy is hard for the pregnant woman herself.
And then she does not know that it is harmful! DO NOT STRESS, if she wants, she will quit.
Normal they are born! our ecology worse than smoking!
Normal-healthy children are born, and those children that you think about are born to initially sick parents or who carry such genes in themselves. And really, there is no need to annoy her with such topics of conversation.
The same are born as non-smokers. and what should be in a stripe
Don't convince her! if the very fact that a child now lives in it did not convince you!! and believe me, even if Lyalika has health problems, she will not admit in her life that this is from smoking !!! a lot of friends smoked pregnant! everyone has some problems, someone has a heart defect, someone has vision problems, etc. etc. and what do you think they tell everyone that THIS and smoking have nothing to do with it!!
Smoking can be harmful to health, but what does pregnancy have to do with it! pregnancy is not illness and consequences pleasure, but whether it is desirable or not is the second question. There are many examples when parents planned the birth of a child, a year before conception they quit smoking, drinking, led a healthy lifestyle, and children were born with numerous pathologies. Breathing now is also harmful in the air is also not entirely clean ))))))) I smoked the whole pregnancy, not because I didn’t think about child health and because I wanted to smoke (I tried to quit but didn’t succeed) and thank God my son didn’t have those pathologies that you are going to tell your girlfriend about. But we are all individual and we and ours have different destinies and different health.
Why is it that if you smoke, then the child will be born a freak. If your girlfriend is in a position, I think she shouldn’t show something like that at all, because all pregnant women are very suspicious
If she smokes... eventually she will begin to choke.... she breathes for two. and if there is little oxygen in the room, then she becomes ill, tk. all oxygen goes to the fetus in the first place, but she does not get it. as a result, dizziness, blackout in the eyes, fainting. And you will not find pictures.
Miroslava
Smoking during pregnancy can lead to placental abruption, causing the baby to choke and eventually die.
Smokers and drinkers sometimes have healthier children than non-drinkers and non-smokers!!!
I had 2 classmates. Both of them are still drunks. They drank too much, even smoked weed. And then they both got pregnant. We thought they would have bottles instead of babies. Nothing like this. Healthy and beautiful children were born)))
Smoking during pregnancy common mistake many future mothers. Smoking is a harmful and harmful habit for a woman who is not expecting a child. If pregnancy has come, but it is necessary to quit smoking not only for your own sake, but also for the sake of the health and development of the baby. Smoking does not bring anything useful, but the risks of complications increase dramatically.
Smoking during pregnancy
The ideal option would be a situation where the girl did not start smoking before pregnancy. But, if there is an addiction, then it is necessary to abandon it at least a year before the planned conception. For complete elimination nicotine from the body of a woman takes just that much time.
Even if a pregnant woman eats right, plays sports and drinks vitamins, but at the same time smokes, this will definitely affect the health of the baby. A child, no matter how healthy the smoker leads, will still receive his large share of nicotine. Nicotine addiction, unlike alcohol or drug addiction, is rather weak. The main thing is to take the first step and understand that the baby needs to quit smoking.
Why is smoking during pregnancy dangerous?
Cigarette smoke contains over 4000 chemical substances. Including lead, cyanide, about 60 carcinogenic compounds. If a pregnant girl smokes, all these substances enter her bloodstream. The mother's bloodstream is the only source nutrients and oxygen for the baby. That is, smoking future mother literally poisons his child. None of the 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke, is not useful for the child. Two out of 4000 are nicotine and carbon monoxide, for the baby are very dangerous. One might even say deadly.
It is nicotine and carbon monoxide that can cause such complications during pregnancy as stillbirth, premature birth, low weight of the baby. All this is due to the insufficient amount of oxygen that was supplied to the baby. Nicotine, moreover, constricts blood vessels, including those in the umbilical cord. Therefore, the baby will be forced to breathe through a very thin tube, which will further reduce the amount of oxygen.
Smoking in early pregnancy
In many situations, a woman finds out she is pregnant when the baby is two to four weeks old. If at this time the girl smoked, then the child has already managed to get a dose of nicotine. At the fourth week of pregnancy, the embryo begins to form the brain, spine, liver and digestive tract. Nicotine intoxication primarily affects the development of the baby's brain.
To reduce the impact of smoking on early dates pregnancy, you must notify your doctor. He will prescribe essential vitamins and help to adjust the diet in such a way as to reduce the impact of smoking. It is also best to avoid all products containing caffeine. Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits, drink juices. All this will help to cope with nicotine intoxication in the early stages and give birth to a healthy baby.
Smoking in the second half of pregnancy
In the second part of pregnancy important role the placenta begins to play. It provides the baby with oxygen and nutrients. If a woman smokes during this period, then the described physiological process may be broken. Not enough oxygen will enter the baby's body, because of this, the child may experience acute oxygen deficiency.
During this period of pregnancy, smoking can also lead to premature maturation of the placenta. The old placenta begins to function worse. As a result, this can lead to premature birth. If the placenta becomes too thin and has irregular shape(can be determined by ultrasound), the likelihood of intrauterine death of the child increases sharply.
It is important! Mothers who smoke, including those who were active smokers before pregnancy, have a dramatically increased risk premature birth, as well as birth dead babies. Women who smoke are about 20% more likely to have stillborn babies. If a woman smoked more than a pack of cigarettes a day, then the risk of having a stillborn child is 35%.
Effects of smoking during pregnancy
Women who smoke tolerate pregnancy worse than those who have never smoked or quit a year or more before conception. Smokers are more likely to suffer early toxicosis, varicose veins veins, constipation, dizziness. Also, smokers often have a deficiency of vitamin C. This leads to serious immune disorders, metabolic problems.
The most important consequence of smoking during pregnancy is the effect on the developing baby. If the baby is in the womb of a mother who smokes, he is a passive smoker. If a mother quits smoking during pregnancy, the baby may suffer from a phenomenon known as 'nicotine hunger'. Such children are significantly behind in their development before and after birth. Often such children are born with certain health problems.
How smoking affects the baby during pregnancy and birth
Most of all, the development of the baby, as mentioned above, is affected by the lack of oxygen if his mother continues to buy. The risk of preterm birth in smokers doubles on average. Often a child is born weighing up to 2.5 kg.
Formation of weight and height
If a mother smokes a pack of cigarettes a day during pregnancy, then the weight of the baby is reduced by an average of 250 grams. The more cigarettes smoked, the lower the weight of the child. Such inhibition of fetal growth can negatively affect the entire life of this person.
Shaping the body and lungs
Babies who are born too small often have underdeveloped organs. In particular, by the time of birth, the lungs may not have time to form. This means that the baby will be connected to the device for the first days of his life. artificial respiration. As a result, breathing problems may occur. Children of smokers have twice as many high risks get asthma.
Heart shaping
If the mother smoked in the first trimester of pregnancy, the chances are high that the baby will be born with some kind of heart disease. Studies have been conducted that have shown that such children have up to 70% higher risks of congenital heart disease.
brain function
Babies whose mothers smoked during pregnancy may have learning, behavioral, and low intelligence quotient (IQ) problems.
Diseases associated with smoking during pregnancy
Some women believe that if smoking during pregnancy did not harm during the period of bearing the baby and after childbirth, then everything worked out. Actually it is not. Many diseases can develop in a person only because his mother smoked while carrying a child. In the first year of life, these children are at increased risk of death from sudden stop hearts.
Developmental pathologies such as cleft lip, cleft palate, strabismus, inguinal hernia even Down syndrome. The development of pathologies is especially likely if the mother is over 35 years old, and she also smoked later dates pregnancy. Children of smokers are prone to bronchitis and pneumonia.
How to quit smoking during pregnancy
As mentioned above, smoking should be stopped a year before the planned conception. If this was not possible, and by the time of pregnancy the girl smokes more than ten cigarettes a day, smoking should be quit very carefully. Pregnancy itself is stressful for the body, so you can not abruptly deprive the body of nicotine, to which it is accustomed.
Doctors advise to carry out the procedure complete failure off cigarettes for three weeks. It is necessary to gradually reduce the number of cigarettes smoked, stop smoking cigarettes to the end. By the third week, you will no longer want to pick up cigarettes. But it is better to understand how harmful nicotine is for the baby, and try to stop smoking as soon as possible.
Passive smoking during pregnancy
Passive smoking, when a pregnant woman, against her will, inhales cigarette smoke, is also very harmful to the formation of a baby. Passive smoking increases the risk of miscarriage.
Pregnant women exposed to passive smoking:
- 26% higher risk of problems conceiving;
- 39% higher risk of spontaneous miscarriage;
- 23% higher risk of stillbirth;
- 13% higher risk of having a child with birth defects;
During pregnancy, a woman should try to protect herself to the maximum from passive smokers. Being in a smoky room for an hour by number harmful substances that a person will receive, exactly one cigarette smoked.
Protect your health, as well as the health of your child from the first weeks of his life. Smoking needs to be taken seriously, including passive smoking. Nothing beneficial to the body nicotine will not bring mother and child, so you should stay as far away from this addiction as possible.
The effect of drugs on the human body continues to affect for another 10 years after stopping their use. Children of drug addicts born before the end of this period are hostages to the whims of their fathers and mothers. In addition to deviations in the state of health and development, which are “rewarded” by drug-using parents, childhood in such kids is by no means safe. That is additional factor, threatening the health of a small person.
"From the screw": how addictions affect
Statistics say that drug addicts are rarely able to give birth to healthy offspring. 80% of drug addicted parents varying degrees used psychotropic substances, children are born with various malformations. Any narcotic drugs are capable of penetrating through the placenta into the newly developing organism with the blood stream.
Even in cases of birth healthy baby the consequences of the "pampering" of parents can affect the adolescent during puberty.
Different drugs affect the body of any person in different ways. The same applies to the consequences that are inflicted on the child if the expectant mother uses drugs.
Drugs can cross the placenta
- Heroin
Children born to mothers who use heroin are fully dependent on heroin from the first minutes of life. drugs. Their future life prospects are as follows:
- The first hours of life are a critical moment for them. Heroin withdrawal can take place in the most difficult form. Because of the withdrawal syndrome, a small heart can not stand it.
- Surviving children, growing up, develop physically worse than peers born from healthy parents. In babies, children of drug addicts, speech disorders, problems with ODA, and mental deviations are detected.
- According to statistics, children born to mothers with heroin addiction die from sudden respiratory arrest (syndrome sudden death, manifested under the age of one) 20 times more often than babies of ordinary parents.
Children of drug addicts who use heroin are found to be illiterate.
Parents who are drug addicts expose their offspring to dangers that are ten times less common in healthy children.
- Cocaine
Because of this drug, the fetus develops an increase in blood pressure. Vasospasm occurs in the placenta, which leads to insufficient supply of nutrients and oxygen to the fetus. Hypoxia can lead to the death of the unborn baby or serious violations its development. Unfavorable outcome possible due to placental abruption or as a result of a stroke. If the baby is still born to cocaine addicts, then often with diseases affecting the genitourinary system.
- Amphetamine
When using α-methylphenylethylamine, the fetus has a pronounced spasm of the vessels of the placenta. Due to lack of oxygen, hypoxia can develop. In addition, the use of amphetamine leads to weight loss in the mother, which cannot favorably affect the development of the fetus. Simultaneous Manifestation oxygen starvation and lack of nutrients often leads to intrauterine death of the unborn baby. In the case of birth, severely emaciated children with a large deficit in weight are born.
- Marijuana
Some women, "indulging" in smoking drugs, consider them completely harmless to the body. Compared to other drugs, they may indeed seem "not harmful." However, even regular smoking tobacco is not recommended when carrying a fetus, not to mention narcotic "herbs".
Having smoked one "joint", the pregnant woman is already at risk of harming the fetus. However, drug addicts cannot stop there, and addiction forces the woman to take the next cigarette. This increases the risk of both miscarriage or premature birth, and fetal developmental disorders. Children born to drug addicts who smoke "weed" have a pronounced weight deficit, hearing and vision impairments, reduced head size, and subsequently cerebral palsy may develop.
Various deviations from the norm are observed in children who were born from a mother who smokes weed
Reliable data on the use of lysergic acid (LSD) is not yet available, since this drug is quite "young". However, according to recent observations, the “club drug” contributes to placental abruption, fetal mutation, and in the case of a successful birth, children grow up with a significantly reduced level of development compared to other peers.
- Desomorphine
The drug "crocodile" or, in other words, desomorphine got its name because of those changes in skin that occur after its introduction. The injection site is covered with ulcers and erosions. A purulent crust forms on top. Approximately the same uneven skin has a crocodile. The drug "crocodile" is much cheaper than heroin. It consists of substances available in everyday life, and "crocodile" is a kind of " dangerous mix", which causes psychological dependence Literally from the first dose. This "invention" of man is called the "drug of the poor."
The degree of harm to the health of using "crocodile" is significantly higher than from the use of heroin. The components of the drug are quite toxic, and together they represent mortal danger not only for the fetus, but also for his mother. The fate of drug addicts who use such a substance for more than four months is unenviable. They are already incurable. Death from an "overdose" is inevitable. The introduction of 2-3 doses of such a substance for a woman is sufficient to be unable to give birth to healthy offspring in the near future.
Women planning to have healthy children should know that after a couple of doses of desomorphine they will no longer be able to give birth to such children.
What future awaits him
What if the parents are drug addicts? To give birth or not - unfortunately, it is impossible for a woman to forbid it, but with such children it is definitely more problems. If the child was able to survive after childbirth, then this does not mean at all that he will be completely healthy, since:
- The need to take drugs in a baby is “in the blood”.
- The newborn has serious congenital pathologies.
- Due to the significantly reduced immune status growing children of such parents often get sick.
The consequences of the use of chemicals by drug addict parents affect the baby's body negatively.
Even former drug addicts have children born with skull or face defects. They showed a cleft lip or a wolf's mouth, turned out to be fused eyelids. Such children from drug addicts in the photo make a depressing impression.
In the first trimester of pregnancy, when organs and systems are laid down. If the embryo was formed without serious pathologies and it was not rejected, the consequences of smoking can affect at 5-6 years. The child may have problems with nervous system, he is less assiduous, restless. Often such children fall behind in school, and they need extra classes. One in five prenatal deaths are due to the mother's smoking. That is, 20% of miscarriages, including late ones, are due to smoking.
Negative effects of nicotine in the second trimester of pregnancy
If the child develops without defects and the ultrasound data confirm this, we can say that the mother is lucky. The older the fetus, the less negative impact it has nicotine on it. All systems and organs are already formed, the child only needs to grow. The placenta begins to suffer, it no longer provides normal nutrition, it becomes thinner, areas of dead tissue appear. The child develops chronic hypoxia, less nutrients are supplied, and as a result, doctors diagnose intrauterine growth retardation. Certainly, modern drugs and methods of treatment can minimize the harm from smoking, but they are far from always effective.Throughout pregnancy, the risk of preterm birth, oligohydramnios and weakness remains labor activity. And although these conditions are pathologies of pregnancy, the child can also suffer. With a pronounced, for example, the bones of the fetus are often bent. In the third trimester, there is a high probability of late gestosis, which is fraught with placental abruption, emergency delivery and intrauterine fetal death. Complications in childbirth occur 2 times more often, in women who smoke, the uterus contracts worse, bleeding occurs more often during and after childbirth.
Negative consequences after birth
Four out of a hundred newborns need resuscitation on the first day after birth. 30 out of 100 children experience complications and conditions in the first month of life life threatening─ without timely assistance is possible death. In the first year of life, the risks of sudden infant mortality remain high. These children are at high risk of getting sick. diabetes, atherosclerosis. There are more children among children from smoking women; other neuropsychiatric disorders are more often diagnosed.If the child develops according to the norms, gains weight, his physical and mental development does not suffer, the smoking mother should still be more attentive to the child. She needs to make every effort to minimize potential harm nicotine in the future. Pay more attention to the health of the child, his development, teaching methods and healthy lifestyle life in general.
Speaking about potential risks, obstetricians regard them as a whole. Healthy smoking woman taking vitamins is more likely to give birth to a healthy child than a woman who smokes with pathologies internal organs, neglecting proper nutrition and with other risks.
When smoking 3-4 cigarettes a day, the probability of giving birth to a healthy child is 80%, for women who smoke 6-10 cigarettes a day, healthy children are born in 60% of cases, for heavy smokers, the risk of having a sick child is about 90%.