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.
That's quite the threatening post and most unpleasant to read. The lady is not on here in a professional capacity, she is here as an expectant mother - for you to preach to her in such a way is disgraceful.
No I'm afraid you're wrong about the capacity she's speak in. Midwives have a professional duty not to offer their personal opinion or circumstances whilst making known their professional status. She didn't have to disclose this and in fact was wiser not to. As it sands, i don't believe she is, but taking her on her word, my post was to seriously warn her - not threaten her - of this implication of her actions.
It's absolutely right that I tackled her authenticity, the cyber world is full of people pretending to be people they are not and I'm sorry you find this offensive, but the RCM would have a very different view to this user's behaviour on this thread if she were indeed a Midwife.
She's entitled to speak as a mum, definitely, but not cross over with her professional status. That's unfortunately the nature of the maternity services - that if you publicise your status, you have to advocate the standards of the service you represent. What happens behind closed doors is different of course, but this is not what we're dealing with here.
If anyone wants to PM me to discuss this further I'm happy to.
I'm not going to discuss this further and add to this and I'm sorry to the OP hat this thread has become such a circus.
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But i am not going to tell myself that I am never going to have another 1 again. Just hoping to not want one again. I know how selfish I have been and even though my baby has 4 months of healthy womb time, I'm just praying that the damage hasn't already been done, I would NEVER forgive myself. Good Luck, you can do it xx
