Pregnant and Smoking Marijuana

No. Smoking marijuana during pregnancy may affect your baby's growth and the development of his nervous system. Studies have shown that children who were exposed to marijuana during pregnancy sometimes have problems focusing their attention and solving problems.

Children of heavy pot users may also have problems with short-term memory, concentration, and judgment. (There's no evidence so far, however, that marijuana use during pregnancy causes attention deficit hyperactivity disorder).

I am a 24 year old mother of 3 with one on the way. My first pregnancy I did everything by the book eating, vitamins, exercise everything they tell you to do. Before I got pregnant with my first son I was smoking weed. Then I
stopped as soon as I found out I was pregnant. Then with my second son I didn't just stop I still smoked a joint every know and then to relax. Then with my third I did not stop smoking at all. My first son suffers for ADD, and Crohn Disease. And that was doing it my the book. My second son only suffers from is hard headedness. and my third well he is the smartest of them all at 2 years old he is talking in sentences and the most indepedent child I know he does everything on his own and I mean everything including going to the restroom in the toilet. So I honestly don't think that smoking can harm you child anymore then doing by the book. If your child is going to have a problem it doesn't really make a difference what you do just dont smoke crack that will kill anything. My doctor prescribed me vicodine while I was pregnant for pain I was having and that made me feel just the same as smoking a joint. I am not saying that you should just go out and smoke. but if this is something that you have already done and you want reassurance that you child is not harmed I think that you and your child will be alright just remember anything can happen smoking or no

17 states have enacted civil laws making it possible for authorities to take away the children of pregnant women who test positive for drugs. The Ohio Supreme Court may take up the issue soon. So far, hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children have been taken from their mothers as the result of a single positive drug test, according to the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy.

The most bitter battleground, however, is South Carolina, the only state so far to have explicitly extended criminal child-abuse laws to cover fetuses. Despite directly contrary rulings in numerous other states, South Carolina's Supreme Court declared in 1997 that drug-using pregnant women can be prosecuted criminally -- and sentenced to as much as 10 years in prison.

Dozens of women have since been charged. Just last March, one woman was sentenced to three years in prison for violating her probation by "abusing" her unborn child with cocaine, and another drew a five-year suspended sentence for smoking marijuana while pregnant.

youd have to be a fool to do any kind of unnecessary foreign substance while pregnant. you can argue all you want, "weed doesn't hurt my baby", yadayada but if you think about it, any foreign substance in your lungs besides clean air is a CARCINOGEN, just think about all the carcinogens you take into ur lungs with every selfish gulp or marijuana smoke, not caring a single bit about the new life, helpless, attached to you. You wanna argue, say marijuana never caused cancer, it doesn't matter, your still limiting yourself and your baby to some degree. Instead of taking a walk, cleaning out ur system, staying healthy with good nutrition you decided to have a couple lungs full of toxins. But, thats no where close to whats about to happen next... The THC, quickly penetrates your lungs and then starts binding to you cannabinoid receptors giving you that high feeling you love so much, and you sit there, of course not satisfied, wanting another gulp, fool, and you go on smoking, not paying any attention, lost in a high daze. At the same time of course the baby inside of you, fully dependent on its mother is having his underdeveloped cranium pumped full of all the chemicals you just took in. Think about that, his/her veins are linked to your own dumbas s and all of that just entered HIS BRAIN!! Of course with him all of this is a different story, YOU, the responsible adult is capable of filtering and processing all of this shi t, but your baby is incapable of doing so, rather its being fed this garbage right as his neurons, cells, are trying their utmost best to form the best connections allowing for optimal development. Think about a rose growing in ur garden, and if you water and take care of it daily, it will grow up to be one of the best flowers there. Now imagine littering that flower with joint wraps and cigarettes, saying DIE *****, and not giving enough water, you may not think thats what your doing but from the babies standpoint THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE. So there you have it, you finally have ur kid, maybe not retarded, but no einstein or fermat, just an average joe. Thats ok tho, this world is filled with so many of them, average joes. I mean if you could pick ur mother to stay OFF DRUGS COMPLETELY during pregnancy, or JUST SMOKE POT before YOU were born, wouldn't you want her to stay as healthy as possible, stay clean, take walks, not gulp down random toxins, why the **** take the chance... foolish, your not mature enough to be a mother, not a real woman yet.

I benn smoking weed for about one year is not that I smoke every second. I JUST Smoke when I Get out of work to relax and on the weekends, but I find out I'm pregnant, some people say that they smoke all the way to nine months and notlhng happens to them. but I know in a way that it does affect your baby. I probably be like a month now or close to be. I'M AFRAID THAT I WILL BE STILL SMOKING/ BUT I AM WILLING TO STOP NOW THAT I'M EARLY INSTEAD STOP WHEN I GET 5 MONTHS. WHAT SHOULD I DO?

Smoking weed is not worth any risks or side effects you could give to your baby. if you cant quit smoking for 9 months then you have a problem.Nevermind a preganant mom smoking weed is just triphlant. Big ol belly and your buffin......thats not attrative at all. Give your baby the chance to be normal. there are no known facts of hurting a baby by smoking weed but what if? How terrible would you fell. think about it. I wish you the best and goodluck.

I live in MA and I am pregnant. I want to know if anyone knows if they will drug test my baby or me without telling me? I am going to stop smoking now but I mean I want to make sure that they arn't going to take my son away after he is born. I mean I am afraid thats why I am stopping but I'd feel better if someone could tell me what their expiriences were with this.

This is a tricky subject, im 22 and 3 months pregnant and smoking pot is causing a problem between me and my boyfriend. ive been raised around pot, my mom even smoked through all her 5 pregnancy's and we are all just fine. i smoke pot, i was a "pot head" before i found out i was pregnant and i have cut back on smoking, alot! but somtimes i feel sick or im having trouble sleeping so i want to take a little hit or two, but my boyfriend gets all mad and starts an argument over one hit. i just up and quit smoking cigs, and i dont see why he thinks im always stress free, im not!! infact im stressed rite now. i told my doctor about this issue im having and he said that if i smoke in moderation it wont hurt my baby, he said the stress my boyfriend is putting on me by these arguments was worse for me then taking a hit every now and then.
im mainly upset because he hasn't made any changes on his part and ive changed alot about how ilive. he gets to drink, he gets to dowhatever he wants and i dont. this is his kid to, he needs to support me and quit things with me. is it right that he expects me to change completely but he doesnt have to? i work everyday, he doesnt even work! im just having a stressful, lonley pregnancy and need some advice and support fom someone. if someone has any advice that might help me please let me know......

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Anyone using any type of drug or alcohol, will have side effects from that drug. Hilucinations, muscle relaxing, increased appetite, speeding up the heart, blood and breathing rate, the ability to remember or learn is impaired, and lung and other cancers. Just like second hand smoke, effecting the innocent bystanders in a room full of smokers.... so can any inducement effect that of an unborn fetus. Eating well promotes good health for both mother and baby,... ingesting any product will give the same effects to the unborn fetus as to the mother. They are dont forget, attached via the ambilical cord. The fetus is fed through the ambilical cord. So any development of the heart, brain, bones, tissue, are all impacted by what is and isn't being contributed to its development. Think about it, it is an extension of yourself.

Smoking pot is bad for the unborn child. The first 3 months is the most important development time for the whole fetus. When a child is in the uterus the brain develops first. When you smoke pot ciggs ect. It deprives the fetus of oxygen, also prlonged exposure to pot can change your bodys chemical make up as well as the unborn childs.
Nothing is written in stone but 65% of familys that smoke pot, dicover there child is born with ADHD,, ADD, Asthma and many nemous medical conditions. If you think this is crazy and I don't know s*hit. Look on the web and typ in "Fetus development" You will find immence amounts of information about you developing fetus. I would also suggest to go to prenatel classes. Not only is it confidentual, but it will help you understand about fetus development and what drugs are safe.

I am studing to become a Educational Assistant( A person whom works with physical and menatally handicapped children) this is where my info has came from plus raising my own 2 children. AND MOST IMPORTANT SMOKING POT IS A METAL ISSUE NOT PHYSICAL>IT TRULLY IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD ASK ANY DOCTOR OR NARCOTICS OFFICER.