Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant

Dangers of Smoking While Pregnant

• Lower birth weight. Smoking reduces the amount of blood that reaches your placenta starving your baby of the food it needs to grow.
• Smoking makes it harder to get pregnant in the first place by lowering your fertility.
• Once pregnant, smoking makes miscarriages more likely.
• After birth, babies born to smoking mothers cry more as they crave the nicotine you do in cigarette smoke.
• Babies born to smoking mothers are more likely to die unexplained (SIDS), and to suffer from asthma and ear infections when older.
• Children of smoking parents are more likely to smoke too.

Smoking is dangerous to you AND your baby in pregnancy.