Tina: Knowing whether smoking really is as bad as some people say.

Tina – 28 weeks pregnant on:
Knowing whether smoking really is as bad as some people say.

Tina said: “I don’t think smoking has affects. I mean both of my girls have had low birth weights, but they’ve never had any infections or anything do you know what I mean? So I think sometimes the scare tactics don’t work because I mean I’m having problems with my placenta at the minute but I’ve never had a problem before and I don’t smoke as much as I used to in my previous pregnancies.
I mean I don’t think I do smoke as much as I did then, but I’m having problems with my placenta now and that can be an age thing, but it can also be a smoking thing, but it can also be something else.
I think in ways they blame smoking for a lot of things nowadays, when it’s not just that. I mean drinking in pregnancy can cause low birth weights, I mean I don’t drink so but anything can make a difference.”


Midwife Hull said: "We do know smoking can cause major problems in pregnancy.
Smoking can definitely affect the placenta which in turn restricts the blood flow through the placenta leading to problems."

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