Smoking & pregnancy
Smoking is bad for your baby, and it is damaging your health too. It's a great time to think about stopping smoking.
When you inhale smoke you put more than 4000 chemicals, including tar and carbon monoxide, into your body. Carbon monoxide gets into your blood stream and reduces the oxygen reaching your baby. If you are the baby's mother you should be aware of how smoking is harmful to you and your unborn baby.
If you are the baby's father, you may think that as you're not the one who's pregnant, there is no reason for you to quit smoking. If so, you'd be wrong. Women who are exposed to secondhand smoke during their pregnancy are at risk of complications. Passive smoking is dangerous because the harmful gasses and chemicals go to your partner and the unborn baby.
Visit the smoking pages for the baby's mother and the baby's father for more information about why you should quit smoking.
If you have already decided you would like to give up smoking, visit the smoking section for more information on how you can quit, answers to any quitting concerns you may have, and how nicotine replacement therapy might help.
Other ways to have a healthy pregnancy:
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Based on information taken, with permission, from "S is for Smoking & Pregnancy" and "P is for Protecting Babies & Children From Secondhand Smoke" produced by the Welsh Assembly Government
