Smoking Whilst Pregnant!

unholyangel

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

Well said unholyangel! :T

The point about traffic fumes is a very good one actually. My friend who is asthmatic, smokes, but it doesn't seem to bother her (probably wont help, but it doesn't seem to set her asthma off), anyhow, we went to Manchester once, and the traffic fumes set off a severe asthma attack and she ended up in hospital

I would argue that unless you want to lock yourself away for 9 months, it would be very difficult to avoid them.

I know quite a few asthmatics who smoke. One is so bad, pet hair sets him off but smoking doesnt. For another, its deodorant/air freshners and again, smoking doesnt.

You'd think it would!

unholyangel

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

I know how you feel. When I had my hysterectomy last year, my Mum and Dad used to take me outside the entrance to the hospital for some fresh air. The gynae ward I was on was right beside the maternity unit and the entrance was always full of pregnant women puffing away. Now bear in mind I smoke myself (occasionally, I'm a social smoker really) but I always used to say I would give anything to be in their position and I certainly wouldn't be smoking. I'm a big girl anyway and was a strange shape for a while because of a giant fibroid, and I've had the 'think of the poor baby' accusations before which upset me greatly as I suffered terribly for years with PCOS before I finally had everything removed prematurely at 31 last year due to cancer, but end of the day its none of my business and I wouldn't have a go at anyone whether they looked pregnant or not!!

Thats terrible. I hope they were mortified (if you told them you werent pregnant).

Mylo_The_Moggy

Totally agree OP. Really annoys the hell outa me when i see some heavily pregnant lass/woman puffing away like a chimney.
Angers me more so as me & hubster have been trying to conceive our first baby for the last 8 years, with no success. These women should thank their lucky stars they can get pregnant & don't have to go through endless tests & fertility treatment just to get a baby. And all the heartache & tears when it doesn't happen.
I know smoking can be a hard habit to kick, but for the sake of the unborn life inside them, they should make the effort.
They truly don't know how bloody lucky they are to be pregnant. They should step in to my shoes for a day......

Sorry for the rant, but when i hear things like this it pi$$es me right off. :mad:

sweetstudent

Just to add again to this I am currently undergoing treatment for cancer with both radiotherapy and chemotherapy. I have been told that my life expectancy is going to be shorter - how much shorter I do not not know.

Myself and my wife both want to start a family, but we both know that we cannot just yet - at least for another 7-8 months time and after we get my sperm tested to make sure that it has not been damaged and is still healthy.

Yet we could both be very selfish people and create a new life, which may well be a very healthy baby but on the other hand the child's DNA could be damaged. Yet women who smoke (and there partners) can still damage the child's DNA and yet the same women who smoke whilst pregnant will be complaining that the hospital did not 'pick up' any abnormalities whilst the baby was in the womb!

But to all people, even thought I am against smoking I still respect peoples right to smoke, but when you are forcing another person to smoke then it is a different matter. (So glad smoking bad came in! :T)
I know that there is some debate into banning smoking in cars with children (which i agree with) but the different then is that cars have windows, they have formed lungs.

I would love to put it to a smoker that would they like to inhale all of the smoke that they release and nothing else........Because that is what your baby is breathing in

967stuart

It's disgusting.
These women are scum imo.
If you can't even be bothered to do the most basic of things to give your baby a good start in life then you are truly pathetic.

aileth

It is utterly disgusting. The women who do it are of a certain 'type' to be sure.

I will never forget being stood at the bus stop near one of them, who had a pram with a small baby in while obviously heavily pregnant, puffing away like a champ. A man suggested to her that it wasn't doing either of them any good, whereupon she actually attacked him. Passerbys had to literally crowbar her off while she was f-ing and blinding 'I'll do what I f***ng want' etc. Yes, you can do what you want, but I'm pretty sure your foetus or newborn doesn't want it!

AllThatGlitters_2

Some of these comments I feel to be quite misguided. My mum smoked whilst pregnant with me and she is definitely a 'nice person' and is definitely not a 'simple person on benefits'

I don't hold anything against her for it.

RuthnJasper

The thing about being fortunate (and, despite the government ineptitude, corruption in high places, and high cost of living we ARE fortunate to live in this country) enough to live in a "free country" is that we are... well... FREE.

Free to make out own choices. I love a cigarette now and again and, in the unlikely event that I become pregnant in the future, I would choose not to smoke whilst expecting. That is my choice. I can understand that the foetus does not make the choice as to whether or not its mother smokes - but we ALL have to live with the results of our parents' choices, good or bad.

I choose not to smoke in front of my little niece and nephew because they think that their Auntie Roo is "funny" and "cool" and I don't want them to associate my smoking with that.

But smoking whilst pregnant, although not to be encouraged, is not "evil". Genocide is evil. Corruption is evil. Racism is evil.

Instead of vilifying people for their choices, why not try and support them? I don't like cats very much - but that doesn't mean that I agree with people who are mean to cats.