As a smoker, you put at risk the health of each of cigarettes, cigars or tobacco products you use. But the stakes climb higher if you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant. Learn how smoking affects: your chances of getting pregnant, the health of your baby during pregnancy and well-being during the first year after the birth of your baby.
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| Smoking Can Harm Your Baby |
Pregnant
If you are currently using oral contraceptives and smoke, you are more at risk of heart disease and hypertension. Smokers only 72 percent of the fertility of a smoker. Male smokers also face a risk of 50 percent higher than impotence. Research shows that smoking can reduce the response to stop ovulation and fertilization and implantation of the zygote.
It is also believed that the chemicals cause cervical fluid tobacco toxic to sperm, which greatly increases the difficulty of conceiving. It also indicates that the toxins in cigarette gene mutations, which can cause lead to birth defects, cancer, miscarriages, and many other health problems for children of smokers. Mutations of this gene will be the child whose father is a smoker, not only influence the mothers.
Pregnancy and childbirth
During pregnancy tobacco smoke chemistry is inherited from the mother to the fetus through the bloodstream. These chemicals, toxic to the mother and the child, posing a serious risk. Studies have shown that smoking during pregnancy is associated with a variety of health problems, including low birth weight, placenta previa, premature labor, premature rupture of membranes, miscarriage, and neonatal mortality. If infants had mothers who smoked during pregnancy, child is nicotine in the blood are the same mother. In the first days after birth, a parent of the child smoking experience withdrawal symptoms.
Postnatal
After birth, the baby's health continues to suffer from a mother or a father smoking. During the first year, will be children with parents who smoke experience a higher risk of pneumonia and bronchitis. Children of smokers are at greater risk of frequent, severe asthma attack.
Children exposed to secondhand smoke (passive smoking) are more susceptible to the adverse effects of hair due to their increased respiratory rate. Cigarette smoke can cause children to have more colds, respiratory problems, ear pain, and diseases that require the assistance of a doctor. Asthma or allergies can worsen when children are exposed to cigarette smoke. Finally, the children of smokers are at greater risk themselves to be smokers.
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