: About Me

As a mother myself I worried about birth defects and problems while I was pregnant. I wondered if I was getting enough folic acid, if my diet was healthy enough, if I was drinking enough water, or if that half a pack of cigarettes I smoked the day I found out I was pregnant was going to harm my unborn child. Smoking during pregnancy can not only cause a miscarriage, a stillborn child, premature birth, but low birth weight as well. Smoking raises the levels of carbon monoxide in your bloodstream. This reduces the amount of oxygen available to your baby and may cause breathing problems in yo...