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Caring  for your baby  starts during your  pregnancy.

Tobacco use affects the unborn baby's health. This causes the child to be small at birth and more
likely to die of crib death.

Please read our other brochures that are part of our 10  FACTS series:

• AlcoholUse in Pregnancy

• Marijuana Use in Pregnancy

• Drug Use in Pregnancy

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10  FACTS

About Tobacco Use
in Pregnancy

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10  FACTS
You Should  Know:

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Smoking tobacco affects a pregnant woman's heart and lungs, cutting off the air supply to an unborn baby.
When a woman smokes, her lungs cannot move oxygen into her body and her heart has more trouble pumping oxygen through her body. Oxygen cannot move across the
placenta to let the baby "breathe."

: Smoking tobacco while breastfeeding

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: can harm your baby.
Nicotine from tobacco can enter the baby through the mother's breast milk. Also, cigarette ashes can fall and burn the baby,
: and second hand smoke can enter the
baby's lungs.

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; When a woman smokes tobacco during

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: pregnancy, her baby is more likely to die from crib death.

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When a man smokes tobacco, his sperm are harmed so it is more difficult for him to make a baby.
Tobacco can kill a man's sperm and hurt the sperm's ability to swim to the woman's egg. This makes it more difficult to conceive a baby.
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It is never  too late to quit smoking during a pregnancy.
G)	a woman is in her

:. Smoking tobacco during pregnancy can

A baby whose mother smoked tobacco during pregnancy is many times more

;   likely to die during infancy from crib death

No matter how far along
pregnancy, it is much better for the baby if she quits smoking tobacco than if she continues. The baby  will have a better

:  cause a baby to be born too early.

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Tobacco smoking in pregnancy is one of the main causes of a baby being born too early. Being born too early can cause damage
:  to the baby's lungs and can cause brain

:  than a baby whose mother did not smoke
: tobacco during pregnancy.

chance to develop normally.

:  damage  that affects the baby throughout his or her life.

: Smoking tobacco during pregnancy can

: Secondhand smoke can harm a baby both  during pregnancy and after the

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baby is born.

:  a baby to cough,have trouble breathing, and

Tobacco smoke from other people can cause

: keep a baby from growing in the womb.

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Smoking tobacco during pregnancy can cut off the oxygen and food supply to the baby in your womb, making it hard for the baby
:  to grow. A baby being small at birth can
: cause a baby to die and can affect the baby's

:  have a lot of colds and ear infections.

: Children whose mothers smoked tobacco

:.       development as he or she gets older.

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Babies whose mothers  smoke tobacco during pregnancy can suffer nicotine withdrawal right after birth.
Smoking tobacco during pregnancy can cause a baby to have a hard time responding to its mother. The baby can have "shakes." This will make it hard to comfort the baby and settle him or her down.

: during pregnancy can have learning

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and behavior problems  when they get to school.
Children exposed to tobacco when in the

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: womb are more likely to have troubl attention to what you or the teacher says. Learning problems also are more likely.

References from research articles regarding these
"10 Facts" can be found at www.ntiupstream.com

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STAY HEALT,HY
During Your P.-enancy

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