Smoking and Pregnant
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January 3, 2010 Smoking and Pregnant

. Many women smoke without knowing the negative effect that smoking can have on their unborn babies during the pregnancy and after. These health complications include ectopic pregnancy, placental abruption, and increase jeopardy of the baby born in premature and low birth weight. When a pregnant women smokes her unborn baby smokes too. What this means is that the nicotine, carbon monoxide, and the other chemicals that the mother inhales with every cigarette are passing into her baby’s body. Most of the parents with children know that babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy weight less at birth than those born to nonsmokers. Low birth babies are more vulnerable to many health problems such as breathing difficulties and long- term healthy problems in adulthood. If this course is obstructed, the fetus will not receive enough oxygen to develop properly. Smoking not only exposes the baby’s fetus to poisons in tobacco smoke, but it also harms placental function. Naturally this disturbs the fetus of the baby negatively. Placental abruption is problem that occurs from smoking during pregnancy. It is a condition in which the placenta separates away from the uterine wall. This is because the breakage of the blood vessels reduces the oxygen supply to the unborn baby Cigarette smoking increases the danger of acquiring cancer of mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, lung, kidney, and urinary bladder as well as the risk of respiratory disorders and coronary heart diseases. In conclusion, Mothers should remember that their babies should not be imposed to experience the danger related with smoking cigarettes. Instead they should take care of them by not smoking cigarettes during their pregnancy.

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