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charli19891
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how about we quit together lol!!! it needs to be done.. OH doesn't smoke and he hates that i smoke!
i still smoke with this pregnancy and i smoked with my son who was born 10 months ago and he was born 7lb 8.5oz and is very happy and very healthy... i know smoking is bad in pregnancy but i find it very hard.
And as for the placentas quoted by the above poster mine was huge and red and bulgy lol.
it is hard to stop and i have tried so many times, nothing seems to work!!!
but i understand where you are coming from!!!
I;m not saying it to be shocking or untrue. The fact is your son's placenta will have been compromised by the smoking - it absolutely would have been bigger in diameter and in thickness had you not smoked and it WILL have been gritty and calcified - areas of dead placenta that can't carry oxygen and nutrients basically. He probably would have been a bigger baby too, because inadequate placentas don't help grow the baby to it's full potential. I've seen a LOT of the things and whilst it might have looked healthy to the untrained eye, it most certainly won't have been.
I'm not meaning to upset you, it's important people know the real situation so they can make that informed decision isn't it?
And as ex smokers we all understand how hard it is too.
I am a midwife at my local delivery suite... newly trained yeah but i have some idea of what to look for even though i felt more sick looking at mine then i do with eveyone elses lol.
i have my next mw appt on the 25th feb and have a appt with the stop smoking mw too
i quit cold turkey around 5 weeks back... i just told myself im being selfish if i carry on smoking...as yes its very hard indeed...but giving up is the best thing you could do for your baby...yes u will hear people that still smoke say oo its ok my other children were fine, and yeah they probably are, however...they would of been alot more healthier if smoke was not involved whilst they are growing..
the way i see it is...its not just YOU ya harming anymore...its not fair and selfish.
Sorry but iv said to myself when the baby is out i will have a fag to celebrate... how dizzy will i be!!
My mom smoked when she was pregnant with me. She drank from time to time too. Are you saying I'm somehow lacking in the health department? Compared to other people (especially other Americans) I'm doing pretty good.
i still smoke with this pregnancy and i smoked with my son who was born 10 months ago and he was born 7lb 8.5oz and is very happy and very healthy... i know smoking is bad in pregnancy but i find it very hard.
And as for the placentas quoted by the above poster mine was huge and red and bulgy lol.
it is hard to stop and i have tried so many times, nothing seems to work!!!
but i understand where you are coming from!!!
I;m not saying it to be shocking or untrue. The fact is your son's placenta will have been compromised by the smoking - it absolutely would have been bigger in diameter and in thickness had you not smoked and it WILL have been gritty and calcified - areas of dead placenta that can't carry oxygen and nutrients basically. He probably would have been a bigger baby too, because inadequate placentas don't help grow the baby to it's full potential. I've seen a LOT of the things and whilst it might have looked healthy to the untrained eye, it most certainly won't have been.
I'm not meaning to upset you, it's important people know the real situation so they can make that informed decision isn't it?
And as ex smokers we all understand how hard it is too.
I am a midwife at my local delivery suite... newly trained yeah but i have some idea of what to look for even though i felt more sick looking at mine then i do with eveyone elses lol.
i have my next mw appt on the 25th feb and have a appt with the stop smoking mw too
So you should know that smoking has a negative impact on a placenta. And also know that telling people your son's placenta was fine is dishonest, to justify your own guilt.
As a MW it's your professional duty not to endorse or even suggest what is bad for your women is not anything other than damaging, esp you are giving out smoking cessation advice daily (i hope). You have an ethical responsibility to offer clear advice and not doing so is going against the NMC guidelines so you need to be very careful what you say. You've worked hard for your profession, you owe it to other women and to yourself to promote health better than that. Don't risk your registration.
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
Um... could someone explain to me what this means in the UK? I'm hoping it has a much different meaning than in the US... lol (or not? hmmm)
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
Um... could someone explain to me what this means in the UK? I'm hoping it has a much different meaning than in the US... lol (or not? hmmm)
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
Um... could someone explain to me what this means in the UK? I'm hoping it has a much different meaning than in the US... lol (or not? hmmm)
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
Um... could someone explain to me what this means in the UK? I'm hoping it has a much different meaning than in the US... lol (or not? hmmm)
i still smoke with this pregnancy and i smoked with my son who was born 10 months ago and he was born 7lb 8.5oz and is very happy and very healthy... i know smoking is bad in pregnancy but i find it very hard.
And as for the placentas quoted by the above poster mine was huge and red and bulgy lol.
it is hard to stop and i have tried so many times, nothing seems to work!!!
but i understand where you are coming from!!!
I;m not saying it to be shocking or untrue. The fact is your son's placenta will have been compromised by the smoking - it absolutely would have been bigger in diameter and in thickness had you not smoked and it WILL have been gritty and calcified - areas of dead placenta that can't carry oxygen and nutrients basically. He probably would have been a bigger baby too, because inadequate placentas don't help grow the baby to it's full potential. I've seen a LOT of the things and whilst it might have looked healthy to the untrained eye, it most certainly won't have been.
I'm not meaning to upset you, it's important people know the real situation so they can make that informed decision isn't it?
And as ex smokers we all understand how hard it is too.
I am a midwife at my local delivery suite... newly trained yeah but i have some idea of what to look for even though i felt more sick looking at mine then i do with eveyone elses lol.
i have my next mw appt on the 25th feb and have a appt with the stop smoking mw too
So you should know that smoking has a negative impact on a placenta. And also know that telling people your son's placenta was fine is dishonest, to justify your own guilt.
As a MW it's your professional duty not to endorse or even suggest what is bad for your women is not anything other than damaging, esp you are giving out smoking cessation advice daily (i hope). You have an ethical responsibility to offer clear advice and not doing so is going against the NMC guidelines so you need to be very careful what you say. You've worked hard for your profession, you owe it to other women and to yourself to promote health better than that. Don't risk your registration.
Of course i know how negative it is to smoke during pregnancy but all i can do is advise people not force them to stop smoking!
If ladies come to me and say they are still smoking and don't want to stop all i can do is advise them and not start saying loads of things to scare them as i think that is wrong. And i am not saying my sons placenta was fine i was just simply putting across what it looked like. whereas you put all smokers placentas are dull and gritty which mine did not look like, so it was not dishonest at all!
i have a heart problem and doctors suggest to me to cut down on smoking and not quit all together as it can be dangerous for me due to the stress. i only smoke 3-4 a day whereas before i smoked 20. I will not be risking my registration at all, i am just giving my opinion.
i will admit i could still murder a fag now and then...
Um... could someone explain to me what this means in the UK? I'm hoping it has a much different meaning than in the US... lol (or not? hmmm)
i still smoke with this pregnancy and i smoked with my son who was born 10 months ago and he was born 7lb 8.5oz and is very happy and very healthy... i know smoking is bad in pregnancy but i find it very hard.
And as for the placentas quoted by the above poster mine was huge and red and bulgy lol.
it is hard to stop and i have tried so many times, nothing seems to work!!!
but i understand where you are coming from!!!
I;m not saying it to be shocking or untrue. The fact is your son's placenta will have been compromised by the smoking - it absolutely would have been bigger in diameter and in thickness had you not smoked and it WILL have been gritty and calcified - areas of dead placenta that can't carry oxygen and nutrients basically. He probably would have been a bigger baby too, because inadequate placentas don't help grow the baby to it's full potential. I've seen a LOT of the things and whilst it might have looked healthy to the untrained eye, it most certainly won't have been.
I'm not meaning to upset you, it's important people know the real situation so they can make that informed decision isn't it?
And as ex smokers we all understand how hard it is too.
I am a midwife at my local delivery suite... newly trained yeah but i have some idea of what to look for even though i felt more sick looking at mine then i do with eveyone elses lol.
i have my next mw appt on the 25th feb and have a appt with the stop smoking mw too
So you should know that smoking has a negative impact on a placenta. And also know that telling people your son's placenta was fine is dishonest, to justify your own guilt.
As a MW it's your professional duty not to endorse or even suggest what is bad for your women is not anything other than damaging, esp you are giving out smoking cessation advice daily (i hope). You have an ethical responsibility to offer clear advice and not doing so is going against the NMC guidelines so you need to be very careful what you say. You've worked hard for your profession, you owe it to other women and to yourself to promote health better than that. Don't risk your registration.
Of course i know how negative it is to smoke during pregnancy but all i can do is advise people not force them to stop smoking!
If ladies come to me and say they are still smoking and don't want to stop all i can do is advise them and not start saying loads of things to scare them as i think that is wrong. And i am not saying my sons placenta was fine i was just simply putting across what it looked like. whereas you put all smokers placentas are dull and gritty which mine did not look like, so it was not dishonest at all!
i have a heart problem and doctors suggest to me to cut down on smoking and not quit all together as it can be dangerous for me due to the stress. i only smoke 3-4 a day whereas before i smoked 20. I will not be risking my registration at all, i am just giving my opinion.
Are you REALLY a Midwife? I struggle to believe it I really do. A Midwife simply wouldn't speak like that and use that terminology.