Allergies, low birth weight, these are both effects of mom’s smoking with babies during and after pregnancy – in the long-term. But is there any evidence in the short-term that smoking is indeed bad for your baby?
A study published in Pediatrics demonstrates the bad effect of smoking on babies – effects that can be seen [...]
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Researchers at McMaster University have found that exposure to nicotine while the baby is still in the womb, whether because the mother was smoking or through secondhand smoke, compromises the baby’s ability to respond to oxygen deprivation which increases the chances of a baby falling victim to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
The birth supposedly triggers [...]
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