By the way they won't take your baby away for testing positive for weed. My cousin was 3 days overdue and someone told her smoking weed would bring labor on. She tested positive, and they called CPS. CPS didn't take her baby. They came over (she lives with me) and interviewed me, and made sure the house and *******was okay. And they closed the case.
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it is selfish and irresponsible to smoke pot while your pregnant in risk of harming your child.iam a habitual wine drinker but while pregnant i did not because for nine months i figured i could sacrifice my own habits for my unborn child. are they going to test you who knows..most likely if your on medical.
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To the pregnant woman: Your baby will probably be just fine, don't worry. It is very true that the effects of smoking weed while pregnant are unknown, but consider this: If there is even the slightest chance that it will harm the baby, is it a good thing to do? If it is not known what it does to the baby then that does not make it a fact that it will not harm it, that is also unknown. Also, deprivation of oxygen can cause devastating effects to an unborn or born baby after a while. Please, do what is best for your baby and do not smoke any more while you are pregnant. I know you want what is best for your baby and have a genuine concern, or you would not be posting this at all. Also, if marijuana were to show up on tests, they will likely see by the faint presence of it that you have stopped, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Good luck, and congratulations on bringing a new life into this world!
hi i was hust reading the article the young lady wrote about how she stop smoking weed at six months. first it a hard topic to talk about and myself personally just found out that i was pregnant i was four weeks when i found out and i was scared because a couple weeks before i was smoking weed and i used to chief like an indian but iwas so scared and worried about my fetus. i mean i had found out after i was smoking very heavily the weekend before. i just pray to God and ask him to bring my baby here healthy. im two months and i have quit smoking cigarettes and try to avoid second hand. but i have hit a blunt or two here and their and im not proud of it.
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).
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
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
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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