hi i have a serious concern if my girlfriend is pregnant and if she smokes mariguana can dat effect my unborn child in any way?? what if im a smoker of both ciggs and mariguana can dat harm my unborn child???

charlotte234s

Any smoking can harm your unborn child, yes. The drug THC can cause damage to the developing nervous system as it gets to the child as well as it does to its mother. Also, the smoke can harm the child's lungs and respiratory system. Even secondhand smoke from anyone can cause damage, she needs to STOP smoking and you should not smoke around her, if at all.

lelemarie

Yes it can harm the unborn baby as well as after the baby is delivered because anything that she does the baby can feel and get because it goes thru her blood stream which is where the baby gets its blood from so anything she does while she is pregnant the child feels and gets and after the baby is born it does get withdrawls from the nicoten as well as the marijuana and they actually have to give the child a small dose of the drug to get it to calm down and it is not pretty it is really sad so you should tell her to stop because she is hurting the baby?

charlotte234s

Well actually, the blood stream of the baby and the mother do not mix, but it's not getting in through the bloodstream, but rather into the cells of the body, including the placenta, which delivers mother's oxygen, plus the smoke, as well as nicotine molecules into the baby's environment.

redcard

Charlotte, one question....if the blood does not mix, then why are there babies born with HIV? Whatever the mother does or have...is passed on to her unborn child.

charlotte234s

The molecules (including the virus) that make up the baby's blood do come from the mother, but the blood itself does not intermingle.

macksmom

While I won't give you a reddie, because you're new to the site....you are wrong.

Not only does the acutal blood NOT intermingle, your "knowledge" of HIV transmission is wrong as well.

If every baby got it's entire blood supply from the mother directly every child would have the same blood type as the mother correct? Which is NOT the case....otherwise you wouldn't need blood donors...you could always get it from your parents or siblings, right?....wrong!

HIV is NOT transmitted to the unborn babies of HIV positive mothers. Without drug treatment, only 1/3 of babies born to HIV positive mothers actually HIV positive. Drug treatment reduces this number even more. The majority of newborns that test postitive for HIV get infected during childbirth, when the mother's water membrane breaks and the baby is exposed to bodily fluids of the mother while passing out the birth canal...that's why doctor's usually preform c-sections on HIV mothers to reduce this risk. It also passes if the mother breastfeeds the baby.

So....Charlotte is 100% correct about the blood issue.

As for the OP's question, Charlotte informed you correctly. Your gf is putting your baby at serious risk for premature birth, low birth weight, and many other problems.