What are the effects of smoking during pregnancy?

-One of the serious effects of smoking during pregnancy is miscarriage
- Placenta Previa is another condition where in the placenta, i.e. the organ that nourishes the baby grows too close to the opening of the womb, and usually requires a caesarean delivery.
- Compared with non-smokers, pregnant smokers are up to two times more likely to deliver premature babies. This leads to still birth and death of the baby in the first month of life.
- Babies of smokers have less muscle mass and more fat than babies of nonsmokers. The nicotine in the body causes the blood vessels to stop in the umbilical cord and womb. This decreases the amount of oxygen to the unborn baby and hence reduces blood in the system.
- Mothers who smoke during and after pregnancy have nearly 4 times the risk of losing their babies to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

babies exposed to cigarette smoke while in the womb tend to receive less food and oxygen. Your baby is more likely to be born with a low birth weight, which is associated with many health problems including poor lung function. Smoking can also lead to preterm labor or a premature rupturing of the membranes because the body feels that the baby can no longer be fed properly.

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Smoking cause of birth defects, low birth weight and premature births, in almost all the studies done on the subject.

Premature rupture of the membrane is a common problem with smoking women. The baby born is premature and may have underdeveloped brain and physique. Moreover the smoking women also face difficulty in conceiving a child.Heart disease, emphysema, stroke, lung cancers are some of the major diseases which affects a child when a woman is smoking during pregnancy. A child when exposed to smoking may suffer from disease like bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma and ear infection. It causes immediate effect on the baby because part of the oxygen in your blood is immediately replaced with carbon monoxide. It causes both mother and baby blood vessels to narrow, reducing the flow of blood. heart rate of both mother and baby will increase.