Smoking when Pregnant and Pregnancy Complications
There are over 4000 chemicals found in cigarettes and when a pregnant woman smokes a cigarette these poisonous chemicals and toxins within the cigarette pass from the mother to the baby via the placenta and umbilical cord. These chemicals and toxins supply poisons and reduce oxygen to the unborn baby resulting in a number of complications for both baby and mother during and after pregnancy. These include:
- Women who smoke when pregnant increase the risk of a miscarriage.
- Women who smoke when pregnant are twice as likely to have a premature birth and baby born with a low birth weight (below 2.5Kg).
- Women who smoke when pregnant risk having an Ectopic pregnancy wherein the embryo becomes implanted in the fallopian tube instead of the uterus.
- Women who smoke during pregnancy more than double the risk of stillbirth
Smoking and Sex | Smoking when Pregnant
The adverse health consequences of smoking go far beyond just the cancer, heart disease and lung disease associated with smoking. Smoking cigarettes can have a detrimental effect on both sexual and reproductive health and impact the general sex life of both men and women, and smoking when pregnant can have a detrimental effect on a child.
Men in their 30's and 40's can have a 50% increased risk of impotence and erectile dysfunction due to smoking cigarettes and the British Medical Association estimates that in the United Kingdom up to 120,000 men suffer from impotence due to cigarette smoking.
Smoking cigarettes damage the blood vessels and narrow the arteries that lead to the penis resulting in impotence and a survey by Ash and conducted by MORI (Market & Opinion Research International) in the UK revelled that 88% of smokers were unaware of the link between impotence and smoking.
An additional consequence of smoking on male sexual health is reduced fertility. In men smoking cigarettes can result in a reduction in the quantity and quality of sperm and also reduce the chance of pregnancy by inhibiting the mobility of sperm to move through the female reproductive tract. On average the sperm of smokers is 20% less mobile than that of non smokers.
For woman, smoking cigarettes can result in reduced fertility by harming the ovaries, cause hormonal changes resulting in irregular menstrual cycles and even anovulation where ovulation fails to occur.
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As well as causing problems for both mother and baby during pregnancy, babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy have an increased risk of sudden death syndrome (cot death), are taken to hospital twice as often during the first eight months than those born to non smoking mothers.
Babies born to smoking mothers are also more likely to suffer from asthmatic bronchitis in early childhood, hyperactivity, increased behavioural problems, reduced I.Q. and painful diseases such as glue ear (inflammation of the middle ear).
For couples who smoke and are contemplating childbirth, STOP SMOKING and increase the chance of pregnancy, a successful birth, healthy baby and ongoing sex life.
In men there is an increased risk of impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction. In both men and women there is an increased risk of reduced fertility and for mother and baby there is an increased risk of complications during pregnancy, childbirth and after childbirth if a woman continues to smoke cigarettes when pregnant.
If you plan on having a baby or long and healthy sex life, then smoking may hinder your chances of both.
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