All mothers-to-be, who are waiting for their babies
desperately, must take care if they are smokers. Your only priority is the
unborn baby and you must be attentive regarding his health. The first thing you
can do for your baby is to quit smoking. Several problems can arise to your
baby because of your smoking habits. The unborn baby is at maximum danger of
many kinds of diseases because of your smoking habit. Every mother wants a
healthy baby. But, your smoking habit will never fulfill your wish and it may
harm your baby. Statistics show the considerable increment of smoking among
women in United States.
The woman who is a chain smoker, when she decides to
have a baby or when she is already expecting, should immediately quit smoking.
Quitting smoking will prove to be beneficial for you as well as your baby. If a
woman wants to quit smoking then pregnancy is the best period to quit it. It is
the time, when your only priority is the baby and it would be easier for you to
quit it. During the early period of pregnancy, it would be tough for you to
quit smoking and you feel unwell. However, at the same time it would be easier
to quit also, as it will not taste well to you.
Regarding baby's health, if
you quit smoking before conceiving then it would be much beneficial. During
pregnancy, your body should have no nicotine, as it will narrow down the blood
vessels. The blood vessels that are contracted because of nicotine, also
includes the placenta and the baby. It will be better for your baby, if you
even avoid any other replacement of nicotine, such as patch or gum. All these
things are a little tough to you. But, if you make yourself mentally strong and
do certain planning, then definitely you are going to quit it. A smoker woman
if quits before conceiving then the weight of the baby will be same as of the
non-smoker woman's baby. Moreover, if a smoker woman quits smoking during the
initial phases of pregnancy then your baby will be quite normal and you are
saving him from many severe diseases.
After the birth of baby, do not start
smoking again. The baby is always closer to the mother and indirectly you are
passing all the bad effects of smoke into him. So, never think that it is too
late now to quit. Whenever you feel that, I must quit now that is the best time
to quit.
Some deadly diseases, which you are passing to your baby directly,
but unknowingly:
Abruption is caused because of nicotine that at an early
period separates fetus from placenta. This could also result in the death of
the baby.
Vasoconstriction is the narrowing of the blood vessels, which are
carrying food and oxygen to the baby. It also damages the placenta, which is
actually a link between mother and the baby. Due to smoking of the mother, baby
weighs less than the normal baby does.
Your smoking habit will also degrade
your child performance in school. There is the danger of leukemia, due to
mother's smoking habit. There are also dangers of attack of pediatric asthma
and other kinds of allergies to the baby. There are also several cases of
Infant death due to smoking mother.
In spite of such a long list of bad
effects on the baby, if the mother still prefers to smoke then you must be
ashamed of yourself. Your smoking habit is killing you and your baby. So,
determine to quit smoking and bless your child with healthy and long
life.
