smoking and pregnancy :s

[lealea85]

i was feeling rather stressed and had two cups of tea....along with a ciggerette.

i was always a smoker n pregnancy was when i tried to give up.....but havent been successful

dr said as long as im not smokin 20 a day and keepin it to a minimum i should be fine...i must be the only person on here who smokes n has the odd sneaky one or two.

 

[pinkymum]

No you're not the only one. I have the odd one too. Feel really guilty about it. I've tried going cold turkey and I really can't so I've been referred to someone who can advise which NRT I can use.

X x x x

 

[midnight]

hiya i know how hard it can be to give up im trying my hardest myself too so know how hard it is but just thought id say on my last pregnancy i smoked all the way through and even though there was no complications with him he does now have asthma and we have had a few scary moments with him we have a family history of eczema and asthma so i know he could of had it anyway but i do blame myself and i am going to give up this time its not easy but im going to do it i have to,
its fantastic that you have cut down to just a few a day so dont be so down on yourself or think you are the only one as your not alone and take it 1 day at a time xx we can do it

 

[mumofmany]

No your definately not the only one, I gave up with my 1st 2 very easily,then I mkiscarried twins I gave up smoking fine again, then my 3rd when i gave up I ended up bleeding heavily, everytime i tried i ended up in hospital again one time i even heamoraged, then at 22 weeks my waters broke so a midwife said to me to go and have a fag and she bet any money that the bleeding would stop it did she said i was putting my body through too much stress with the bleeding and waters breaking to add on top giving up smoking was too much, so I just cut down, I did have him at 33 weeks, so with my 4th I gave up again fine, then i had 4 miscarraiges in a row everytime the bleeding started a few days after I gave up, so with my last one i didn't give up and managed to carry to full term, so this time i have just cut down am 12 weeks now so I am hoping to give up and hope i dont encounter any problems, I know alot of the bleeding and miscarraiges could well be coincidense but i wont take that risk.

 

[Lynzlogan87]

nope me too!!
Have had patches and gum but the gum makes my chest tight and the patches give me a hive type rash and migraines.

Am due to see my stop smoking councillor next week to try something else.

Before this pregnancy i was on around 35 superkings (the long ones) a day...now down to about 15ish x

 

[lealea85]

No your definately not the only one, I gave up with my 1st 2 very easily,then I mkiscarried twins I gave up smoking fine again, then my 3rd when i gave up I ended up bleeding heavily, everytime i tried i ended up in hospital again one time i even heamoraged, then at 22 weeks my waters broke so a midwife said to me to go and have a fag and she bet any money that the bleeding would stop it did she said i was putting my body through too much stress with the bleeding and waters breaking to add on top giving up smoking was too much, so I just cut down, I did have him at 33 weeks, so with my 4th I gave up again fine, then i had 4 miscarraiges in a row everytime the bleeding started a few days after I gave up, so with my last one i didn't give up and managed to carry to full term, so this time i have just cut down am 12 weeks now so I am hoping to give up and hope i dont encounter any problems, I know alot of the bleeding and miscarraiges could well be coincidense but i wont take that risk.

my heart goes out to u hunny. i hope n pray all goes well. i was told not to stop smoking just like that as ive been smoking since i was 15/16 and if i try to stop just like that it would cause stress on the baby. so i smoked one fag every 2-3 days....then stopped for 3 weeks......then i was back on 5 fags a day.....i tried but i didnt wanna risk anything. most ppl i knwo that have kids n smoke said they smoked all thru up until before they had to leave to go into hospital.....and those who didnt ended up losing the baba.


but tanks ladies, i really thought i was the only one on here that was still smoking. i think im just extra paranoid as this is my first pregnancy that has actually stuck with me n im happy. on top of that i have my 5 month scan in 2 weeks and im so scared....

 

[isobel84]

i smoked alot less when finding out, then after about 16 weeks i didnt smoke everyday and after around 25 weeks i was down to 1-2 a week and now i have not had one for about 4 weeks.
You can do it, but just try to cut down more and more.

And i dont mean to be horrible but alot of ppl says "i smoked trough my pregnancy and it didnt harm my baby" well.. if something did happend.. would you not ask yourself if it was your fault?
And also.. its not sure you will notice any harm in your child when they are just a baby, maybe it comes later..

 

[lealea85]

at the moment im trying to get down to smoking only two a day. so if smoke half the fag, stubb it out and so forth. then get my self bk to havin one fag every 2-3 days. i think for me what makes it worse is i smoke out of boredom

 

[flexilexi394]

well youre definately not the only one!! i gave up when i found out i was pregnant and havent had a whole one since, just literally the odd puff on the very rare occasion and heres something that will potentially put you off . . .
my MIL was a midwife and she said the smokers placenta and ambilical chord were discustingly discoloured and weak - a lot of the ambilical chords broke before they were cut, where as a non smokers was nice and juicy and fat and strong. pretty interesting eh!! xx

 

[x.Lilly.x]

Your not the only one hun dont worry.
Theres far worse things you could be doing!
I gave up very easily with my son as I had horific morning sicknes and hates the smell of smoke let alone having 1.
This time iv had nearly no sickness, and still smoke anything from 5-10 a day.
I know its not great, but I really have tried to stop and got so stressed I would cry when I didnt have a fag, so I figured thats worse tbh.
Dont be to hard on yourself

 

[lealea85]

thanks ladies


ewww does the palcenta really go a random colour??

 

[BabyGagasMum]

it can do hun :s

I managed to quit at 6 weeks, then had one and it tasted god awful(slap me, i was in a bad place!)

 

[lealea85]

i havent smoked in 12hrs..l actually want one but tryna fight against it.....so if i dont buy any, i dont have none to smoke