I smoked about 5 a day with my 1st preg, about 10 a day with my 2nd, and about the same for my 3rd. ( gave up at 5 months in that preg).
My plan with the 2nd child was to give up, but it was so hard even though I knew it could damage my baby. At 18 weeks we had a scare and heaps of scans, and the stress made it impossible to quit. I asked the counseller and doctors at the specialists if smoking was a contributr to what they were looking at and they said no.
I am still smoking at the moment with this latest pregnancy, and I do feel guilty about it. I just find it so difficult to quit. I don't want to be judged by others as I am my own harshest critic. And I will give up before too much longer, I am cutting down and trying not to have as many as I normally would have. I know I will stop but stresses make it difficult.
Even though I smoked my babies birth weights have been 6 lb 13, 7lb 8 and 8 lb 4 1/2. None of my kids are asthmatics and none have had serious our even minor health problems. Nobody smokes around my children or in our house. Not that I use this as a reason to smoke, but it has to be in my time. My kids don't even know I smoke, which means I can only smoke when none of them are around.
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