Footy Chick wrote:fisho mcspaz wrote:Johno6 wrote:why some females smoke whilst pregnant.....
My mate did that. I wasn't happy with her. Finally she said she'd given up - I was thinking, you're eight months pregnant, IT'S A BIT LATE NOW! Since then, she's taken it up again.

Effing do-gooders...seriously. ( I mean in life in general, not you Fisho

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My best mate has 3 kids, she smoked and drank (not to excess of course) right throughout her first pregnancy but not with her other 2.
CHild no 1. is fit and healthy while child 2 has had health issues all his life (including leukemia) and child 3 has an immune deficency.
While doctors recommend women give up smoking during pregnancy, it's quite often said it is better to have the odd one every now and again if the need arises to avoid unneccessary stress on the mother and baby.
Now taking drugs while pregnant... how about we get on our high horses about this subject...because THAT is despicable!
hehe all good FC
I smoked a couple of cigarettes when I was pregnant with my first, and had a few drinks throughout, as I did with my second. Didn't know I was pregnant either time initially - both were unplanned - so I reckon I had a couple of wild nights out on the piss before I found out. Luckily I found out quite early both times. And I was also lucky in that I found it easy to give up smoking because of the morning sickness - I couldn't even look at cigarettes, and secondhand smoke made me chuck. Both my kids were born healthy - definitely no issues there. They were both big boys as well - my eldest was 9lb 2oz.

Couldn't walk for three weeks after I plopped him out.
Drugs when pregnant - hmmmm, I'm just trying to think if I DID take any. Not marijuana or anything, I mean prescription drugs. I reckon I did take a few Panadeine Forte in the week before Luke was born, but the head obstetrician at Flinders recommended it so I guess it was safe. I was in constant sharp pain - a physio told me it was something to do with how Angus was so big at birth, he'd done some permanent damage to my pelvis or something around that area - and I couldn't walk very well and I spent a lot of nights awake, biting a pillow so I wouldn't scream. The Panadeine Forte did bugger-all, though, so I might as well have not taken it. My mate's brother's missus took a s***load of drugs with all three of her pregnancies, bloody stupid selfish moll. Marijuana and opioids mainly, but I think she did a bit of smack too. Her eldest was born with cerebral palsy, although I don't know if that was related to her drug use; her second was born normal, and her youngest was born dead. Since then, my mate's brother has been diagnosed with Huntington's and has given up drugs completely so he can enjoy whatever time he's got left, but his missus still does the smack. When they have people around, she won't even come out of the bedroom because she'd rather be in there with her syringe than out entertaining her guests. But there's not a thing anyone can do to help her; she just doesn't believe that there's anything wrong with what she's doing.