This is known to raise the risk of SIDS, particularly if you smoke, you recently drank alcohol, or you're taking medication that makes you sleep more heavily. See more about reducing the risks of SIDS. You can also visit the Smokefree website or call the NHS smoking helpline on Licensed NRT products are safe to use while you're breastfeeding.
They increase your chances of quitting smoking, especially if you also have support from your local NHS stop smoking service. NRT is available free on prescription while you're pregnant and for 1 year after your baby is born.
It comes in a variety of formats, including patches, gum, lozenges, nasal spray and inhalators. While using an e-cigarette vaping is a lot safer than smoking, it isn't completely risk free. As well as nicotine, e-cigarette liquid and vapour can contain toxic substances, although these are mostly at much lower levels than in cigarette smoke. At the moment there are no e-cigarettes licensed as medicines. New mums are advised to use licensed NRT products for help with quitting smoking and staying smokefree.
Only smoking if I was having a few drinks. Obviously I stopped both of these habits while pregnant. I think one of the most difficult it difficult things in terms of assessing the risks associated with smoking is that smoking consists of exposure to many different chemicals.
Most of the studies we have discussed focus on exposure to nicotine but there are other chemicals contained within cigarette smoke that may pose certain risks to those who are exposed, including breast-feeding infants. There is much about the negative effects of smoking that we do not know.
I smoke pot time a day. How bad is it for my month and 9 day old baby if am breastfeeding her??? I have a 3 month old son he is coughing now and then and i was just wondering if me smoking about 8 smokes a day, could it be causing his coughing and constant stuffy nose? I know its wrong too smoke but its so hard too quit? Please help! I quit smoking during pregnancy and restarted after giving birth.
I breastfeed my daughter, and I never fed her with formula. She slept through the night since she was 2 months old. She gains the proper weight and never had a health problem. However just because you have not experienced any complications thus far does not mean there will be no lasting impact. From my personal experience, I can attest to a lifelong problem with asthma and chronic illness.
I ended up with strep throat and tonsilitis so many times I had my tonsils removed and tubes in my ears twice. Doctors confirmed that my mothers tobacco use while pregnant, lactating and also smoking in the home contributed greatly to this. Research also confirms the long term effects of tobacco use on infants.
I know you love your child but do her a favor and cut way back if you cannot quit entirely. Change clothes after smoking and try to smoke only outside of the home. This will help a lot. Your child is worth it and it will save them a lifelong health deficit such as my own. My gf has been smoking a pack of newports for ten years and at first she said she would stop but she wont!
Please help me help her! If U do, U should quit yourself. If nit, have you spoken to her in a nice way about your concerns? Good anyway hope my answer helps a little atleast. I have had a complicated pregnancy with my twins. I have been off and on bed rest abs have recently went into pre-term labor causing me to be hospitalised on an even stricter bed rest.
I have recently had an emergency csection. With my emotional and stress level being at an all time high. I am breast feeding pumping due to the twins being in the NICU. If i take a few puffs, wait hrs before i pump. What are the risk to the twins and the risk to my breast milkand its nutrients? Please help. I hope you meant you quit smoking and not quit breastfeeding. It is better to breastfeed, especially if you smoke.
Just not sure because of your last sentence. By formula feeding your child will be at more risk because they still get all of the chemicals through the smoke and your skin but have no protection from the immune properties and nutrition in the breastmilk. I think each person and baby is different, I was able to quit during my 3 pregnancies but I knew I would start back after delivering. I would not smoke within an hour of breastfeeding but would smoke immediately after breastfeeding.
I never had a problem producing milk and I am a pack a day smoker. Was it the healthiest thing for my babies, probably not. But all are healthy. I followed the suggestions by kellymom. First few in a long time. Deeply regretting it now. Will not be smoking again while bf!
I quit smoking when i found out i was pregnant. I waited till bub was 9 months old before i began again and found it was because of immense stress as my partner began working away for 2 weeks at a time. I smoke cigs a day maximum, and sometimes only 1 and a half. So far no milk supply problems. I take multivitamins and drink as much water as possible after smoking to try and filter the chemicals through before bubs next feed.
She drinks formula with meals and eats food normally. I always smoke away outside and do change my shirt and wash my hands and face immediately after. You have to take some healthy food and healthy drinks. So while it is likely unwise to expose a baby to nicotine, e-cigarettes must be an improvement over regular cigarettes, as they eliminate exposure to smoke.
You make some good points. However, we do not want to say that this is safe. Nicotine is a psychoactive substance and we do not really know how it affects the developing brain. There has been concern that infants exposed to nicotine in utero might be at increased risk for ADHD.
Based on my clinical experience, I am also concerned that some women who switch from tobacco to e-cigarettes might actually be exposed to more nicotine. These women explain that e-cigarettes are easier to use and do not require them to leave the house or their workplace to smoke.
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