The message that is given to any woman who becomes pregnant, even since she is seeking pregnancy, is completely forget about tobacco.
Perhaps many women do not become aware of the consequences that their habit can have on the gestation of the baby. Although I can understand that it is difficult to leave it, I can hardly understand how they are not able to leave it when what is at stake is the health of a child.
In some cases it is attributed to women's psychological disorders such as depression, but in many others the myth of believing that the anxiety of not smoking is worse for the baby than consuming a cigarette from time to time.
The truth is that there are very few women who quit smoking when they learn they are pregnant. According to the Medical Association of Valencia only 20% of smokers who become pregnant leave it.
There is no doubt about the forcefulness of the figures. We must improve! Inform and create aggressive campaigns in the style of those made with drugs and alcohol in adolescents or the one we can see now about the non-use of the seat belt in children.
Perhaps women are not so aware because they do not see the consequences clearly. I will use to enumerate some of the effects that tobacco has on the baby in gestation. If a pregnant woman leaves the habit today I will feel more than satisfied.
Multiply by nine the chances of the child suffering from attention deficit in childhood. Significantly increases the risk of sudden infant death. The children of smoking mothers are predestined to smoke at an early age.
Not only that. It reduces the fertility of the child, damages the baby's arteries exposing him to a higher risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases, is related to childhood otitis and the risk of being born with a cleft lip. In case you consider it important, there are studies that affirm that babies of mothers who do not smoke are more cheerful and adaptable.
And this is just some data, not to mention that 744 babies die each year in Spain because of maternal smoking. Deaths that could be avoided if the mother quits smoking.
Smoking in front of children has come to be considered as a form of child abuse, why mistreat the child since he is in the womb?
