People that smoke decide every day to slowly kill themselves. It is a choice they make. Should they have a choice to damage their unborn child? I say there should be a law against smoking and drugs while pregnant, because it is proven these things do permanent damage to your child. It is odd why smokes what to say it is OK and does not hurt their child,  they even hope people that listen to them believe them. If we damage another person we go to jail, but if we damage our own child by inserting toxins in their body no one says anything. How sad this is. So maybe by putting some facts here for all to read more people will get active to stop this tragedy.

How Does Smoking Damage Children? Here is a list.

I am going to make this simple because it is important that everyone understands it. Below is a list of known damaging effects of smoking for the child a woman is carrying: Reasons to quit smoking now.

  • unplanned unexplained abortions, in other causes words dead babies for no known reason.
  • ectopic pregnancies, which is a fertilized egg has implanted outside the uterus. The mothers egg is implanted in the fallopian tubes, ovary, abdomen, or the cervix. As the fetus grows, it eventually will cause the organ to explode. This causes severe bleeding and endangers the mother’s life. In a normal ectopic pregnancy the baby dies and sometimes so does the mother.
  • fetal brain damage, brain damage caused by malformation such as vascular, several terrifying consequences ranging from cerebral palsy, damaged brain and nerve tissues, reduced motor functions to delayed development. No one wants their baby born with these problems. Now you know why I believe smoking during pregnancy is a crime.
  • growth retardation/low birth weight. Health risks include illness through the first days of life, some illnesses can cause death, infections, and long term effects including impaired development, delayed motor skills, reduced social development, and learning disabilities.
  • lower or higher than normal infant blood pressure. Children with blood pressure problems are at much higher risk of a major heart attack in their twenties. Children with higher blood pressure may have more trouble with weight or kidney failure and more.
  • problems requiring neonatal intensive care.  This is special treatment facilities for infants with the most difficult medical problems especially those that require surgery within days or weeks of birth
  • infant death from perinatal disorders, brain lesions that happens during a window of time between a few days before birth and a few days after.
  • sudden infant death syndrome, this is the death of a child for no specific reason between the birth and one year old. You child is at a much higher risk for SIDS.
  • mental retardation, includes below-average intelligence, and a lack of the skills necessary normal daily living. Children with severe mental retardation behave like children all their lives.
  • respiratory disorders during childhood, including colds, flu, runny noses, coughs, and sore throats. Some children may also have chronic illnesses that affect the breathing system, including asthma and cystic fibrosis (CF). You child will also be a risk the rest of his or her life for Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Tonsillitis, sleep disorder, and even lung cancer.
  • Attention Deficit Disorder, making it difficult if not impossible to concentrate and learn. This will certainly effect their ability to pass any classes at school and will cause disruptive behavior.
  • behavioral problems, violence, and criminality. You child may will end up in prison because of emotional problems caused by your smoking.
  • cancer-causing agents in infants’ blood: potentially carcinogenic mutations; and childhood leukemia

When you are trying to quit while pregnant is NRT OK?  The simple answer is that NRT can be more damaging to the baby than cigarettes. The problem isn’t just smoked nicotine. On January 8, 2006, Professor Theodore Slotkin, a leading nicotine research toxicologist at Duke University Medical Center, stated: “There is abundant evidence that the major problem for fetal development is exposure to nicotine rather than other components of cigarette smoke.”
Do your own studies but this is what I have found. Smoking and secondhand smoke among pregnant women is a major cause of spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) According to a meta-analysis of published studies, tobacco use is responsible each year for 19,000 to 141,000 spontaneous abortions; 1,900 to 4,800 infant deaths caused by perinatal or pre-birth disorders; and 1200 to 2200 deaths from SIDS. A more recent comprehensive study found that parental smoking causes 2,800 deaths at birth and 2,000 deaths from SIDS. According to a 1997 study, kids’ exposure to secondhand smoke leads to over 500,000 physician visits for asthma and 1.3 million visits for coughs, and to more than 115,000 episodes of pneumonia, 14,000 tonsillectomies or adenoidectomies, 260,000 episodes of bronchitis, two million cases of otis media among children (an acute or chronic inflammation or the middle ear), and 5,200 tympanostomies (middle ear operations).

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