pregnancy help: what happens is someone smokes while they are pregnant? - Help.com

http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_adv…

“How smoking harms the unborn baby

Babies born to mothers who smoke:

are more likely to be born prematurely and with a low birth weight (below 2.5kg or 5lb 8oz).

have a birth weight on average 200g (7oz) less than those born to non-smokers. This effect increases proportionally - the more the mother smokes, the less the child weighs.

have organs that are smaller on average than babies born to non-smokers.

have poorer lung function.

are twice as likely to die from cot death. There seems to be a direct link between cot death and parents smoking.

are ill more frequently. Babies born to women who smoked 15 cigarettes or more a day during pregnancy are taken into hospital twice as often during the first eight months of life.

get painful diseases such as inflammation of the middle ear and asthmatic bronchitis more frequently in early childhood.

are more likely to become smokers themselves in later years.

In addition, pregnant women who smoke increase their risk of early miscarriage.

In later pregnancy, smoking mothers are at increased risk of the baby’s placenta coming away from the womb before the baby is born (placental abruption). This may cause the baby to be born prematurely, starve of oxygen, or even to die in the womb (stillborn).”

If you’re having difficulty stopping smoking, let us know and we may be able to help you through.

Passive smoking is just as dangerous by the way… make sure you keep away from smoky environments and ask smoking friends and partners to take it outside.

the baby explodes once it leaves your uterous

Don’t do it
http://www.marchofdimes.com/professio…

I smoked with both my kids, I am smokeing with this one too, I know the ideal thing is to stop but sometimes that is not possible although I am very sure someone will disagree and tell me I am wrong.
It can and does harm the baby as any toxins you take in is also absorbed by the baby, the baby will get less oxygen flow and most likely will have a smaller baby than then average “healthy” person.
Also don’t lie and tell the docs you have quit or anything like that because the cord after birth on a smoker is a different colour so they will know.