While you may be a habitual smoker, pregnancy is a special time when smoking will affect the fetus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How much smoking is OK while pregnant? And what are the risks of smoking during pregnancy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
This one\u2019s pretty simple: tobacco is not recommended at any time in pregnancy or in life<\/strong>. The mechanism of how tobacco causes harm is believed to be nicotine and carbon monoxide restricting oxygen to the fetus and constricting blood vessels in the placenta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smoking increases the risk of a lot of complications: anemia, placental abruption, small baby, stillbirths, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Smoking may also cause 5x the risk of SIDS; 86% of SIDS deaths in England were with mothers who smoked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And unlike alcohol in pregnancy, where moderate drinking didn\u2019t show severe effects, moderate smoking (1-8 cigarettes a day) showed similar risks to more than a pack a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Luckily, quitting smoking in the middle of pregnancy decreases complications<\/strong>. If you’re currently smoking while pregnant, it’s not too late to stop. Nicotine replacement therapies show some evidence of being helpful, but the problem is these therapies aren\u2019t that successful in stopping women from smoking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While you may be a habitual smoker, pregnancy is a special time when smoking will affect the fetus. How much smoking is OK while pregnant? And what are the risks of smoking during pregnancy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,13],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-parenting","tag-expecting-better","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"\n