In the news today…
“VIENNE - Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of a baby developing asthma up to sixfold, said a Swedish study published at the European Respiratory Society's annual congress on Monday.
The study by Professeur Anders Bjerg of the Sunderby central hospital in Norrbotten and his specialists showed that smoking leads to babies being born underweight, a fact that has an impact on the development of asthma.
The Swedish doctors studied asthma in about 3,400 children between 1996 and 2008.
The study found that babies of smoking mothers had an average weight of 211 grammes (7.44 ounces) less than those of mothers who do not smoke.
Nearly a quarter (24.3 per cent) of smoking mothers' babies weighed less than 2.5 kilogrammes at birth against 4.1 per cent for those of non-smoking women.
In underweight children of women who smoked throughout their pregnancy the asthma risk was at 23.5 per cent, against 7.7 per cent in children of non-smoking mothers who were born with an average weight. - AFP/ar”
In fact this is not new, in the news earlier this year in January, the cancer institute in New South Wales came up with evidence that smoking during pregnancy can cause low birth weight.
The Cancer Institute linked the records of all births in NSW between 1994 and 2005 with cases of cancer in New South Wales children over the same period. Of the 1.05 million recorded births there were 948 cases of childhood cancer.
Leukamia and cancers of the nerves and central nervous system were found to be more common in babies born prematurely and in those with lower birth rate.
Besides putting yourself at risk, you can be putting yourself at risk too. You could be exposing both you and your baby to the following risks:
1. Sudden Infant Death
2. Stillbirth
3. Low Birth weight of the baby
4. Colic
5. Respiratory Infections
6. Placenta Abruption
7. Miscarraige+
So if you want to protect your baby and yourself, quit smoking today.
“VIENNE - Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of a baby developing asthma up to sixfold, said a Swedish study published at the European Respiratory Society's annual congress on Monday.
The study by Professeur Anders Bjerg of the Sunderby central hospital in Norrbotten and his specialists showed that smoking leads to babies being born underweight, a fact that has an impact on the development of asthma.
The Swedish doctors studied asthma in about 3,400 children between 1996 and 2008.
The study found that babies of smoking mothers had an average weight of 211 grammes (7.44 ounces) less than those of mothers who do not smoke.
Nearly a quarter (24.3 per cent) of smoking mothers' babies weighed less than 2.5 kilogrammes at birth against 4.1 per cent for those of non-smoking women.
In underweight children of women who smoked throughout their pregnancy the asthma risk was at 23.5 per cent, against 7.7 per cent in children of non-smoking mothers who were born with an average weight. - AFP/ar”
In fact this is not new, in the news earlier this year in January, the cancer institute in New South Wales came up with evidence that smoking during pregnancy can cause low birth weight.
The Cancer Institute linked the records of all births in NSW between 1994 and 2005 with cases of cancer in New South Wales children over the same period. Of the 1.05 million recorded births there were 948 cases of childhood cancer.
Leukamia and cancers of the nerves and central nervous system were found to be more common in babies born prematurely and in those with lower birth rate.
Besides putting yourself at risk, you can be putting yourself at risk too. You could be exposing both you and your baby to the following risks:
1. Sudden Infant Death
2. Stillbirth
3. Low Birth weight of the baby
4. Colic
5. Respiratory Infections
6. Placenta Abruption
7. Miscarraige+
So if you want to protect your baby and yourself, quit smoking today.
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