Influence of smoking on Pregnant Women
Published on March 9, 2009 8:30 AM
When you find out that you are pregnant, it is high time to start thinking not only about yourself but as well about a baby that is inside you. So at this point it is extremely important to give up several practices and smoking can be found in this list. It is scientifically proved that women who did not give up smoking discount cigarettes during pregnancy giving to a stillborn or premature born baby, having a miscarriage, and many other problems. Smoking during pregnancy also can increase the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS that leads to abrupt death of absolutely healthy child.
The long list of risks caused by smoking during pregnancy can be continued with a wide range of complications concerning pregnancy as vaginal bleeding, colicky abdominal pains, and premature rupture of membranes.
If a woman smokes during pregnancy, it contributes to the reduce of the supply of oxygen to the baby and also hampers the imbibition of group B and C vitamins and folic acid. Lack of folic acid might cause multiply fractions in the neural tube. In addition, nicotine reduces source of nutrients for the baby as result of enhancement of blood pressure and blood vessel contraction.
The majority of pregnant women easily give up smoking during the first trimester, since exactly in this period they face pregnancy toxemia which contributes to dramatic repugnance to cigarette fume and odor. Giving up smoking at the first trimester diminishes the possibility of miscarriage; it also reduces the possibility of the baby’s maldevelopment.
If a woman did not manage to cope with nicotine addiction and could not give up smoking during the first trimester of pregnancy, there is one thing that could largely help her baby – double reduction in the number of cigarettes she is smoking.
And namely this solution can increase the possibility of giving birth to a healthy baby, if a pregnant woman quits smoking during her third trimester of pregnancy, since there is a direct relation between smoking and improper fetal growth and development. Baby’s birth-weight decline is closely linked to the number of cigarettes the mother smokes. who at this stage still have the chance to prevent the possibility of stillbirth or losing the baby due to SIDS.
Thus there is only one conclusion that can be made after getting to know that you are pregnant – Giving up smoking in the early stages can largely contribute to the birth of a healthy child. However, it is scientifically proved that it is better for women to prior to becoming pregnant.
