Tobacco and alcohol use can cause cancer and many other health problems. Smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol during pregnancy are even more dangerous for pregnant women and unborn babies, because they contain countless ingredients that are harmful to your body.
Smoking cigarettes easily causes fertility problems, with women smokers at greater risk of pregnancy than women who don't smoke. If a girl smokes while not found to be pregnant, it can cause a lot of damage to both herself and her fetus:
The fetus can be underweight at birth, even at full term. Smoking slows down fetal growth before and after birth;
The fetus can be born early (premature). Babies born prematurely are more susceptible to many diseases;
Tobacco use can damage your baby's lungs and brain, which can even develop during childhood;
Tobacco smoke increases the risk of bleeding during pregnancy or after giving birth, putting the mother and fetus in danger;
Tobacco smoke doubles the risk of birth defects such as cleft palate. If this happens, your baby will need surgery.
Experts recommend that women who want to become pregnant should not drink alcohol even though they are not or are pregnant to reduce the risk of fetal health problems:
When you drink, alcohol quickly enters your body and reaches your baby. The frightening thing is that the fetus's immature body will process alcohol quite slowly;
Alcohol doubles the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth ;
Mothers who drink alcohol while pregnant at least once a week have children who later become more aggressive and commit crimes than mothers who don't use them.
The serious effects of alcohol use are fetal alcohol poisoning syndrome (FAS), abnormal face, congenital heart, damage to the central nervous system (poor intelligence, decreased physical development, vision and hearing, ...). In addition, alcohol use causes a range of other behavioral problems.
Alcohol and tobacco can have very bad effects, especially for pregnant women. Therefore, you should stop smoking and drinking alcohol before you want to have a baby or as soon as you know you are pregnant. It's never too late to let go of bad habits.
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