Health Womens
Health Effects of Smoking while Pregnant
If you smoke when pregnant, your baby smokes too.Pregnant women who smoke have an increased risk of miscarriage, of having a stillborn baby of having a low birthweight baby. Reductions of 40g to over 400g ( approx. 2 - 8 ozs.) in average birthweight have been reported in babies of smokers compared to babies of non-smokers. Low birthweight is itself associated with increased illness and death of babies around the time of their birth. Longterm effects are delays in physical, emotional and intellectual developement.
Other Effects of the Reproductive System
Some researchers have found an impact of smoking on fertility with a longer delay to conception amoung smoking women and a higher proportion of sperm abnormalities amoung smoking men.Smoking causes women to have natural menopause 1 to 2 years early.
Smoking is associated with cancer of the cervix of the uterus.
Amoung women who use oral contaceptives, those who also smoke are more likely to get a heart attack or stroke.
(Ash.ie)
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