Pregnancy Tips and Maternal Health Care

Can I smoke while pregnant?
Smoking is absolutely contraindicated during pregnancy.
If you are trying to conceive would be good to quit as soon as possible, or if in your case, you got pregnant unexpectedly and sustained smoking is good for your baby to give up this habit in the very moment you learned you were going to be a mom.

Maternal consumption of snuff can lead to important implications and complications to the baby.

During pregnancy:
• Perinatal mortality: is higher in infants of smokers. It suggests a direct relationship to the level of consumption of snuff: the greater the consumption the greater risk.
• fetal weight at birth: babies born underweight which means that probably their lungs are fully developed and must use the first few days on a ventilator.
• Complications during pregnancy such as placenta previa, ectopic pregnancy, vaginal bleeding and preterm delivery.

After birth:
• Breastfeeding: it is proven that nicotine passes into breast milk.
• Sudden death: the children of parents who smoke are at greater risk. No one should smoke in the home, car or wherever you are baby.
• Respiratory diseases of childhood: the children of mothers who smoke tend to have more respiratory infections and asthma.

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