Heavy smoking during first 4 weeks of pregnancy

[Solasue2019]

Hi everybody,

I found out today that i’m pregnant, i had my last period 20th February so i’m exactly 4 weeks pregnant today but I have been smoking heavily for the past 3 weeks, at least 20+ cigarettes a day due to work stress and I have been exposed to a lot of second hand smoke due to taking 4 x 8 hours shifts in the last 3 weeks supervising a closed smoking venue at a casino so i’m so worried about the damage that could have happened to the embryo development and i’m so scared of loosing this pregnancy too as I had a miscarriage at 7 weeks a year ago & i’m also so concerned about visiting a gyny immediately and recievibg bad news about the development of the baby after all this smoking took place in the past few weeks so i’m thinking to give myself a few days to detox before going? can anyone advise on how bad could the damage be and if there is anything I can do to fix any damages other than stop smoking which I did today once I found out that i’m pregnant? Any feed back/advise would be highly appreciated!!

 

[Sugarpop]

I wouldn’t worry. You can’t do anything about something that you don’t know. What’s important is to try and minimise the risk from now.

Make your doctor appointment and explain that you stopped when you found out. As far as I’m aware smoking is known to cause smaller baby’s but other than that, I’m not aware of any other issues (may just not know about them).

 

[night owl]

I wouldn’t worry too much to be honest, I don’t think it’s lungs and respiratory system will even be forming yet, Just as long as you quit now should be ok, I know it’s a different topic but drinking in pregnancy is far worse then smoking I would be more worried if I had been causally drinking or something, it’s very early days so plenty of time for you to quit smoking now and have a healthy pregnancy x