drinking alcohol and taking drugs while pregnant-what it does to an unborn child

everything is absolutely true in this article. whatever you put in your body passes through the placenta to baby!!

I see it this way, if you take drugs, drink dont get pregnant take precautions, or if your thinking about it, clean your act up first. Iv seen babys born drug dependent not a nice sight

This is brilliant advice and i so wish my step daughters birth mother had read this before she fell pregnant she drank through til she was 7 months when she took an overdose to once again harm her she was born in a c section born at 2 Ib 12 my partner was told she wouldent see 24 hours luckily she made it and was home in 3 months after birth but i have had constant problems with her

Thanks for sharing

Luv Emz x

Great advice this, no drugs no drink a child doesant ask to be born why make it suffer? well done for putting this info on

this is scary. Unfortunately i know of someone who is preg and she drinks and smokes weed and she dont care about her baby. ;i wish there was something i could do.

i have seen some pretty bad stuff with women drinking and taking drugs whilst pregnant and it has helped me to stear clear of it mysel, not that i did it much before my kids but i must say it is a real eye opener and what a great article this is for others who are to scared to come out and say this is them so hopefully this is enough to make them think about what is happening to their babies

great work xx

 that is very good advice to b honest i have never takin drugs and never drank wen i was preg or even till my kids are abot the age they r now

cheers

kylie

A younger sister of a friend of ours was pregnant 4 months before I was, we bumped into her on a night out at the pub and she had just found out 2 weeks earlier that she was pregnant, she was 18 years old, and getting drunk.  I couldn't believe it, I felt so angry with her, but I held back and tried to explain it to her like adult to adult instead.  Turns out she was either to drunk, to young or both to listen to me and I heard from her older brother that this behavior continued on periodically throughout her pregnancy.  Lucky for her child she gave birth to a healthy (so far) baby boy, but that's probably due to the fact that her eggs were so young (I think) rather than anything else.  The thing is, that I think she'd probably do it again, should she get pregnant again.  I don't think she learned any lesson, I think she has a 10 foot tall & bullet proof attitude of the young (and in this girls case) and dumb.

Personally I had to go out 2 days after finding out I was preganat for a friends birthday and hubby wanted me to have just 1 drink...I had a 1/4 and just couldn't do it.  Not only was I contious of FAS, but I wasn't even enjoying it, maybe it was mind over matter, but I figured the fact that both hubby and I were drunk on our anniversary when we conceived, was probably enough for the poor thing. LOL

i agree 100%, i did not touch a drop while i was pregnant, i used to have people say, one won't hurt. i think it is better to be safe then sorry, your unborn baby can't decide what goes into there body so i made sure i did the right thing by my baby and went strictly by the rules. Every parent, should read this article, it opens up your eyes.

I agree with Kristen. For me it is better safe than to take a chance as well. While we're pregnant, we're so careful about what we eat because what eat, the baby eats too. As an extension, I have just extended this philosophy to when breastfeeding.