What are the consequences of smoking during pregnancy

Many women drink alcohol, coffee and smoke before they get pregnant. These are not good habits, but not getting pregnant will not cause that much harm to the body. However, some women still smoke during pregnancy, which is obviously wrong. Many people are very curious about the consequences of smoking during pregnancy. Read on. I hope that everyone can gain something from my introduction.

☆Placental abruption: After 20 weeks of pregnancy or during delivery, the normally located placenta partially or completely peels off from the uterine wall before the fetus is delivered.

☆Placenta previa: In a normal pregnancy, the placenta is attached to the anterior, posterior or lateral wall of the uterine body. After 28 weeks of pregnancy, if the placenta is attached to the lower segment of the uterus, with the lower edge reaching or covering the internal os of the cervix, and is very low, it is placenta previa.

The pregnancy complications mentioned here include many, some of which affect the mother and some of which affect the baby. Women who smoke are more likely to develop anemia and are more likely to have placental problems, premature births, and stillbirths. At the same time, smoking has a huge impact on the weight of newborns: pregnant women who smoke are twice as likely to give birth to low-weight babies as non-smoking pregnant women.

Regarding drinking, there is a big difference between the effects of moderate drinking and excessive drinking on pregnancy and childbirth. Is it okay to smoke in moderation? The answer is no. The Missouri study found that women who smoked one to nine cigarettes a day had the same risk of complications as those who smoked more than a pack.

What happens if you smoke during pregnancy? A study published in the Netherlands in 2008 looked at the timing of smoking. The researchers found that maternal smoking in late pregnancy had the greatest impact on newborn weight.

Babies born to pregnant women who smoke more than 9 cigarettes a day after 25 weeks of pregnancy weigh about 7 ounces less than those born to non-smoking pregnant women; this means the baby is 6% lighter! This also shows that even if you smoke at the beginning of pregnancy, quitting smoking in the later stages of pregnancy can still make a huge difference.

Even more frightening is that the risks that smoking poses to babies appear to extend beyond the womb. A British study examined the difference in risk of sudden infant death syndrome between children of mothers who smoked and those of mothers who did not smoke. Children born to mothers who smoke one to nine cigarettes a day have more than four times the risk of dying from SIDS than children born to nonsmoking mothers. Babies born to mothers who smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day have almost eight times the risk of dying from SIDS compared to babies of non-smoking mothers. To put it another way: in the UK, 86% of babies who die from SIDS do so because their mothers smoked.

And it's not just maternal smoking that's a problem; secondhand smoke (from fathers or grandparents, for example) can lead to many of the same negative consequences. A 2010 review found that babies born to mothers who were exposed to secondhand smoke during pregnancy were about 2 ounces lighter at birth than babies born to mothers who were not exposed to secondhand smoke. It is worth mentioning that the research subjects were women who were exposed to a large amount of smoke, the amount of smoke being equivalent to living with a smoking husband. Occasional contact with smokers (being with them in a restaurant at night, meeting them on the street) is not a big problem.

It seems that the harm of smoking during pregnancy is quite great. I hope that women with a history of smoking will quit cigarettes before getting pregnant. In this way, they will not smoke when they are pregnant, which will naturally cause less harm to the fetus in the belly. However, we recommend that smoking is not recommended during pregnancy or in normal times, as smoking is not good for the body.