This topic is very relevant today, when very often you can see a woman in the last period of pregnancy with a cigarette in her hands. Many women know only that smoking during pregnancy weakens the health of the child, reduces its immunity. And this is not enough?
Smoking during pregnancy affects not only the health of future crumbs, but also the generative function of the smoking mother, during pregnancy. A smoking woman has a menstrual cycle, therefore, her fertility is significantly reduced. Nicotine affects many organs and systems of women in the most negative way, because of what the smoking mom has a higher percentage of a weak, sick or unviable child.
If the future mother has been smoking for many years, her respiratory tract has obviously been disrupted, since heavy smokers always have breathing problems. Companions of cigarette smoke - bronchial asthma, chronic bronchitis, emphysema. These diseases lead to oxygen starvation of the future baby in the mother's womb.
If the future mother smokes comparatively recently and is not going to give up such a pernicious habit even for the time of pregnancy, then the pregnancy course of such a woman will be difficult. The fact is that when smoking in the body gets a lot of harmful substances, which greatly weaken the immune system of the smoker. Therefore, the smoking mother will often get sick, which will negatively affect the condition and development of the baby's future. Also, nicotine reduces the synthesis of important hormones of progesterone and prolactin, this also causes great harm to the fetus in utero.
Do you know what can happen to you and your future baby during pregnancy, if you smoke a day from 10 to 20 cigarettes, even lungs? It can simply rupture the placenta and bleed. Why is this possible? Yes, because nicotine strongly affects the activity of blood vessels, which leads to a decrease in their number in the placenta. In this regard, some areas of the placenta can become dead without access to blood and disintegrate. Because of insufficient blood supply, a spasm of the uterus can occur, which leads to miscarriage. Present in the tobacco smoke, carbon monoxide, connecting with hemoglobin, contained in the blood of a future mother, forms a compound called carboxyhemoglobin. This compound does not allow blood to supply tissue with oxygen. What happens in this case? Hypoxia, hypotrophy.
It is not surprising that children of smokers are born with a weight of 200-300g, and for a newborn this is a big figure. Also, children who smoke mums more often are born with disorders in the nervous system, outwardly it is manifested by constant crying, excitement, bad, restless sleep, lack of appetite. These deviations, naturally, affect the further development of these children - most often, they will lag behind in development from their peers, whose mothers did not smoke during pregnancy. They will long suffer from disorders of the nervous system, perhaps all their life. Often these children have an imbalance in hormones, they are predisposed from infancy to diseases of the upper respiratory tract and lungs, to bacterial and viral infections.
But that's not all. Even if you think about it, and smoke less than 9 cigarettes a day, remember that the nicotine you receive is enough to increase the risk of your child being born dead or 20% more likely to die in infancy, and 2 times more likely to , that your baby will be born with obvious deviations in development.
Take care of what is your hands. Bearing under your heart your future child, remember that from these 9 months depends on his future fate. Do not be indifferent to the little person inside you.
Future moms, do not smoke!