Smoking During Pregnancy!

By: Andrea Ruiz

Pregnant women pass any chemicals they take in (from food, tobacco, alcohol and so on) to their unborn

children through the placenta.

If all pregnant women in this

country stopped

smoking, there would be an estimated: •11 percent reduction in stillbirths •5 percent reduction in

newborn deaths

•Babies born of mothers who smoke frequently during pregnancy are on the average 7 ounces lighter than other babies.•Babies of smokers tend to have lower birth weights and a higher chance of being born prematurely, which results in increased health risks.•Smoking nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a low birth weight baby.

Babies of smokers are more likely to become smokers themselves in

later years.

Smoking by children and adolescents hastens the onset of lung function decline during late adolescence and early adulthood.

In general, pregnant smokers eat more than pregnant nonsmokers,

yet their babies weigh less than babies of nonsmokers.

If a woman stops smoking

even by the end of her

second trimester of pregnancy,

she is no more likely to have

a low-birth weight baby

than a woman who never smoked.

Maternal smoking during pregnancy and

exposure to secondhand

smoke in infancy double the risk of

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

(SIDS).

Smoking while pregnant increases the chances of spontaneous abortions

Strive for this…

Not this!

Don’t smoke when you’re pregnant, it’s that simple.

The End!