How do you protect your baby if you smoke?

How do you protect your baby if you smoke?

Protecting your baby from smoke Any smoker (including you, if you smoke) should smoke only outside, away from windows and doors. If you wear a jacket or sweatshirt while smoking, take it off before holding the baby. Never let anyone smoke around the baby. And never take the baby into an area where people are smoking.

How can smoking affect your baby?

Smoking can damage your baby’s developing lungs and brain. The damage can last through childhood and into the teen years. Smoking doubles your risk of abnormal bleeding during pregnancy and delivery. This can put both you and your baby in danger.

Why does smoking increase risk of SIDS?

Infants who die from SIDS have higher concentrations of nicotine in their lungs and higher levels of cotinine (a biological marker for secondhand smoke exposure) than infants who die from other causes.

How can I protect my child from smoke?

Remember that dust masks, surgical masks, bandanas and breathing through a wet cloth will not protect your child from smoke and that N95 respirator masks are not made to fit children and may not protect them. Think about evacuating if your child has trouble breathing or other symptoms that do not get better.

Is it safe for a woman to smoke during pregnancy?

For both women and men, quitting smoking increases your fertility. Women who smoke can have: Men who smoke may have: Smoking during pregnancy exposes your baby to harmful chemicals. Every time you smoke, the baby effectively smokes too, as harmful nicotine and other chemicals pass through the placenta and into the fetus.

Is it safe to smoke while breastfeeding Your Baby?

When you smoke, nicotine and other harmful chemicals are passed on to your baby through breast milk. Even if you continue smoking, breastfeeding is still best for your baby. Other people’s smoke can harm both mother and baby. If it’s not possible for all family members to quit, at least commit to a smoke-free household.

How does smoking affect your baby during pregnancy?

How smoking affects your baby. Smoking during pregnancy exposes your baby to harmful chemicals. Every time you smoke, the baby effectively smokes too, as harmful nicotine and other chemicals pass through the placenta and into the fetus. Smoking also reduces blood flow for your baby.

How can we protect our children from secondhand smoke?

In an apartment, smoke in one room can go through the whole building. Smoking outside in a hall or stairwell does not protect children inside. Smoke goes under doors, windows, and through cracks. To protect the children inside, homes and apartment buildings must be smoke-free. Even when you can’t smell it, cigarette smoke can still harm your child.

How can a fetus be affected by smoking?

Smoking during pregnancy affects you and your baby’s health before, during, and after your baby is born. The nicotine (the addictive substance in cigarettes), carbon monoxide, and numerous other poisons you inhale from a cigarette are carried through your bloodstream and go directly to your baby.

What to do if you smoke while pregnant?

Change your habits connected with smoking. If you smoked while driving or when feeling stressed, try other activities to replace smoking. Keep mints or gum (preferably sugarless) on hand for those times when you get the urge to smoke.

Is it safe to smoke nicotine gum while pregnant?

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology recommends that nicotine gum and patches be considered in pregnant women only after other nondrug treatments, like counseling, have failed and if the increased likelihood of quitting smoking, with its potential benefits, outweighs the unknown risk of nicotine replacement and potential smoking.