I'm pregnant and I smoke 1 cigarrette a week since I found out I was pregnant will this really affect my baby im making a big effort to stop

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of course, it can cause birth defects, premature birth, a wealth of respitory problems, you have to stop for you and ur babys health. please

You really should stop altogether for your health and the babies health. You should not smoke once the baby is born either as they have it can cause lots of other health problems if you smoke around the baby after it is born. Why not just quit for good. What happens if you get COPD while the baby is young or worse yet lung cancer..............who will be there to take care of the baby? Think of everyones health.l

I'm a nurse and I know this is a difficult task. The health of your baby is at stake and try really hard to quit. The baby could be under developed, be born with many problems and even die still born. I know you will make the right decision, after all your babies very life depends on it. Take care and all the best.

I know from personal experience how difficult it is to quit. Since you're pregnant it's even more important for you to give it up, and you need to make sure that you're getting plenty of vitamin C while you're in the process of quitting.

It's not a good idea if you really care about your babies health in the long run.

Any amount of cigeratte smoke affects your baby. It makes the birth weight lower and it also effects the umbilical cord (the way the baby gets nutrition and oxygen from you). I have seen baby's from mothers who smoke 2 packs a day and some from mothers who only smoke a pack a week, the mothers who smoke more give more effect to thier babies, where the mothers who smoked less had less effect. I know there are effects (from working in the Neonatal ICU) on your baby and I would stop for the health of your baby. I am a current smoker and from the babies that I have seen from mom's who smoke I would NEVER keep smoking if I was to become pregnant!!!!!!

most definately!!! i know of people staying with smokers while they were pregnant and the second hand smoke caused them to have low birthweight babies, asthmatic babies, etc... growing up i knew of a girl born without legs or fingers, i was told that was caused by her mother smoking (a rather extreme example, i'm sure, but something to know about if it's possible....)

Yes it does. Even if you are not pregnant at the moment, second hand smoke can harm the baby.

I smoked wene I was pregnant(bad, I know-but, was also an alcoholic DID"NT drink) but, if you on ly smoke 1 a wk. then I'd say quit-won't be that hard- & by the way all 3 of my kid's were fine, not small, defect's & such-7lb.er's really do wish I could have quit smoking(smoked more than you) but, not drinking was hard enough- just quit-not worth your worry.But, to be honest 1 isn't bad.