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ChinaBlue

not a good idea, smoking mj while pregnant can give your child defects to fetal alcohol syndrome

 

ak-47

i would have to agree with the rest of these people. i dont think there are alot of studies involving pregnant women and smoking. so to be on the safe side i wouldnt smoke.

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Burninbrooke

As a mother of two and a daily user, after doing my research I came to the conclusion that there was no safe way for me to smoke, even with a vaporizer the fetus still absorbs the thc (if I remember correctly).(Some) Mothers who smoked mj through pregnancy had babies with probelms that are also linked with mothers that smoke cigaretts, and drink alcohol. I had first hand experience when a high school friend got pregnant at 17. She continued to smoke pot. She had what appeared to be a healthy baby girl. AS the years have shown, she has been the sickest child with the most horrible breathing probelms. So even if you don't effect the brain, the suffering you may cause your child from smoking while preggo is definately not worth it. Heck I quit through both pregnancies and add a year to one and six months respectively to other when I breast fed my children. It's really not hard, and that first smoke after all that time off is awesome.

Edited because I shouldn't post right after I wake and bake

shgrdii

Whoever even thinks of smoking marijuana or anything when you are pregnant is an idiot and doesn't deserve to give birth to a child and should be slapped in the face. I hope the person who asked this question isnt pregnant and wondered if they could smoke, if so, you're an idiot who should not have a child.

Buzzby

That's pretty harsh! Before you go jumping off on people like that, maybe you ought to take the time to find out whether you've actually got a point or you're just blowing hot air.

A study done on the children of marijuana-smoking and non-marijuana-smoking mothers had very interesting results:

Comparing the two groups, the neonates of mothers who used marijuana showed better physiological stability at 1 month and required less examiner facilitation to reach an organized state and become available for social stimulation. The results of the comparison of neonates of the heavy-marijuana-using mothers and those of the nonusing mothers were even more striking. The heavily exposed neonates were more socially responsive and were more autonomically stable at 30 days than their matched counterparts. The quality of their alertness was higher; their motor and autonomic systems were more robust; they were less irritable; they were less likely to demonstrate any imbalance of tone; they needed less examiner facilitation to become organized; they had better self-regulation; and were judged to be more rewarding for caregivers than the neonates of nonusing mothers at 1 month of age.

You're placing yourself in the same camp as the prohibitionists who say we have to keep marijuana illegal "for the children". The emotional reaction to anything that people construe to be a possible threat to children is used to keep our favorite herb against the law and throw harmless marijuana smokers in the clink.

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shgrdii

Yeah but why even take the risk of endangering your child?? If you think something you do MIGHT harm your child and you have your doubts about doing it, then don't even risk it. Inhaling smoke into your lungs, no matter where its from, tobacco, marijuana is bad for a fetus. It doesn't matter if marijuana has less of an effect on it than other things. Why take the risk?? I would hope people know that a child, a life, is more important than any drug. I would see giving up or not doing pot for 9 months would be an easy thing to do in this case.

Buzzby

If you think that marijuana might be bad for children we ought to make it illegal and throw people in jail who have it. Right?


Can you present any evidence to support this?


The study I quoted above seems to support the idea that pre-natal exposure to marijuana is actually beneficial to the child.

vladimir

i dont think a born child and an unborn fetus have anything to do with each other in this case. and, in that case, ive never heard anyone say that marijuana should be illegal because it hurts unborn fetuses. it is recommended that to-be-moms dont do it, just like it is recommended that they dont smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol. but i dont think even the most pro-prohibition person has ever used that as an arguing point for their (ridiculous) view. during pregnancy, moms have to be really careful about what they put into their bodies, as they are also putting it inside the developing fetuses body.
that, again, has nothing to do with why kids shouldnt do drugs, or why marijuana is illegal.

Burninbrooke

Well said Vlad, I mean I didn't even drink soda when I was pregnant, you change a lot of the things you do. Buzz, While your study is very informative and in my opinion probably quite true it is a more physcological (sp? I'm a bit toasty)study, and makes no mention of any possible negative physical effects, Mary affects a fetus in the same way cigaretts do, although my doctor agreed that mary is less harmful than cigs because the average person smokes mush less mary and good mary doesn't have the toxins cigs do, regardless of this it still can produce the negative effects seen in babies of mothers who smoke cigs. I choose not to get my fetus high in the same way I choose not to get my children high, I don't see a difference, and I don't know about anyone else but while I am for legalization, I do feel it is likely that when we do realize that dream, it will be regulated much like tobacco and alcohol. I am okay with that. Just my opinion

cdfbr

Smoking a little weed when your pregnant will not hurt your child in anyway.

Smoking too much weed will hurt your child.

Smoking a Joint every few weeks, is not going to cause any harm. Smoking a joint everyday will.

But hey you know what. When you do have your baby and you do get to smoke again, your gonna get so high, youll be glad you didnt smoke those 9 months. Hehe