Not saying you should smoke, but I couldnt stop smoking when I was pregnant and back then they didnt have anything to say about smoking pot while pregnant.

All my children are fine--for me it would have been more stressful to try and stop then the few hits could hurt the baby. I am not a dr--but that is just my opinion.

The baby is fine--promise

Just stop as soon as possible... Im sure the baby is fine but if you continue to smoke this may not be the case. Just stop now and im sure youll be alright.

U should stop and if u r still nerves then call ur doctor they might be able to help u...

Yes I am definately stopping, I just wanted opinions on if the baby would be okay cuz I went onto a site and its due date calculator said I was about 7 weeks... My only other question (and I dont mean to sound like im a druggy, surrounded by a bunch of other ones cuz I dont do it all the time) is where im living.. Theres alot of smoke in the air.. From weed and cigarettes.. Everybody in my house smokes weed and cigarettes (except me, I only smoke weed ocasionaly) it never bothers me but could it harm the baby?? Im not too concerned cuz I am already getting my own place in 8 days..

Im 15 weeks pregnant and didnt find out I was pregnant until I was about 4 or 5 weeks. I smoked everyday and lived with people who did the same.The best thing you can do for you and your baby is to quit smoking as soon as you can.And fatfamily92 ive never heard anything more selfish in my life..The stress over quitting smoking was harder than the few hits that could hurt your baby.

Yes it could hurt the baby.... Second hand smoke is more harmful then you yourself smoking. ... Get away from all of that as soon as possible.

more selfish, some pple have control over things in their lives others dont. That is just how it is. I have quit smoking pot quit doing drugs and quit drinking in the years since smoking pot constantly. At least when I was preg I tried to quit all the time. It was very stressful for me, I lived in a verbal abusive marriage (where husband slept with other girls in every town)and had a lot of baggage from my life already from pple just like you--who juge without even knowing me or anything.

I love my children more than anything in this world--and you have no right to point a finger cuz I was honest enough to tell the truth!! I loved smoking pot and it is an anti-depressant, that god put on this earth. Living in total depression and heart pain everyday from the way I was treated would have been much harder than smoking only minimal and as least as possible. It is the least thing that will hurt a baby--it is proven they have found nothing to cause harm to the babys in marijuanna. Smoking cigarettes is 10 times worse and back then no one quit smoking cigarettes while preg either. I smoked in the hospital while in labor and after baby was born--back then the whole world dint think they had to tell us what to do.

I remember my mom telling me that when I was born 23 years ago, she smoked a cig while holding me in the delivery room totally different world then :lol:

Yes, totally

I was brought up that smoking weed was okay and that it wasnt actually a "drug" (my dads kinda a hippy haha) so I never thought nothing of it.. I never smoked it at all up to 6 months ago I did it my first time.. I went almost 17 years without doing it, despite it being offered to me and being around me 24/7 but it does make u happy... Everybody has there own thing and personally I dont think its a big deal if ppl smoke pot.. Its better than crack lol... And arent we a lil off topic?

My mom told me in cali they knew back then.. I also know with my hubby his mom quit smoking when she was pregnant and she has a 25, and 22 year old. (their from oklahoma)
im not saying that I dont believe you guys im just telling you what my mom and his mom told me...
Maybe it was different at different places?

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sweetheart if it is proven that marijuania doesnt harm the baby then why in tennessee do they test the placenta for marijuania?If it wasnt such a big deal then why is marijuania illegal? The term back then explains everything.. Back then it wasnt rare that you are sold a dime bag laced with meth or coke. I didnt point fingers at anybody.. Selfish was the word I used and it describes somebody who doesnt have enough will-power to quit smoking pot for the sake of their unborn child.

Thegoodstuff.... Fatfamily is talking about a long time ago, back in the 80's... Not now.

"not saying you should smoke, but I couldnt stop smoking when I was pregnant and back then they didnt have anything to say about smoking pot while pregnant." - fatfamily

remember, there was also a time where smoking cigs wasnt considered bad for you either. My mother smoked cigs the whole time she was pregnant with me... Would I consider that selfish? No not at all, because back then, cigs werent considered bad for your baby.

If you knew enough about fatfamily's history before judging, you would know that she hasnt been able to concieve since 1987... That is until her current miracle baby hehe

Hi, I know a fair bit about this one !!!!!

There was a time when pregnant women were encouraged to smoke, to result in smaller babies, and easier births- I am absolutely serious. Menthol cigarettes were recommended to people suffering from colds, or other respitary illness- i'll bet it helped alot.
Also- marijuana is actually a depressant- like alcohol, not an anti-depressent. This is a common misconception.
Either one will decrease the amount of oxegen in your blood and therefore reduce the amount of oxygen getting to your baby, and to the plancenta. It is not good for anyone during pregnancy, but the actual death rate of babies whose mother's smoke tapers off in babies where mother smokes less than 10 a day. There have also been links made with sids and cigarette smoke- even in cases where the mother does not smoke, but others in the house do.

My own personal experience......

I've been a cigarette smoker since I was 17, working full time, and earning my own money- before that I pinched the odd few from my parents, who were both smokers.
I started smoking pot very regularly when I was about 18 or 19, and fell pregnant (while on the pill) when I was 23. I didn't find out I was pregnant 'till I was about 8 weeks along-because I was on the pill, it wasn't 'till I missed a second period that I thought something might be wrong. I had been smoking pot the whole time, and not only that, but I had had a birthday, and a relocation, so i'd had 2 big parties (birthday then house leaving) I found out I was pregnant the morning of my housewarming party !!!! I already had all the party "supplies" drinks, pot etc, and I couldn't cancel the party on the day without an excuse- besides which, I didn't even have contact details for lots of the people coming, it was a word of mouth thing.
I spent the whole night holding the same glass of red wine so it would look like I was drinking, and rolling my pot into joints, lighting them and passing them to other people straight away- so it looked like I was smoking too.
I wasn't eeven sure at that point whether we'd have the baby or not, but once I knew it was in there, I just couldn't.
We did have the baby, and she was not only fine, but quite big, and is now a very intelligent 2 and a half year old. I never smoked once thoughout the rest of the pregnancy, and didn't even have a cigarette until after I was finished breastfeeding. I guess the first 8 weeks didn't harm her. This pregnancy was planned, and I gave up smoking again- this time in advance !!!!
I was told by a doctor onece, that if I was going crazy for a cigarete, and it was causing me alot of stress, that it was actually less ahrmfull to actually smoke the thing, and have done with it, instead of spending a lot of time in that state. I never did want one though. I was lucky.

If you have trouble quitting and you really want to, your doctor will help you, and he would be delighted to. He can atleast help you to cut down a lot.

My friend in the 80's was also told the same thing by her dr--if it is too stressful for her to want a cig--and not smoke it, that would be worse for the baby and the pregnancy. It does sometimes cause small birth weight although mine were not small. And breathing both cause a decrease in the oxygen levels in the blood, all though mine has never been lower than 98% when checked.


It dont matter to me if it is illegal or not--god put it here, not like the legal alcohol that kills millions of children every year. Let alone that many can die just from being poisened from it. There are medicinal purposes for every thing that god put here--in moderation all are beneficial. That is why they are here. And the scientist are just finding that out. It is a painkiller, anti depressant(worked for me as anti-), helps pple with nausea to be able to eat. Im sure there are other things too. God put it here for a reason.

I only smokes cigs but I finally quit I had a reason too im so proud of myself but my husband still smokes and so does my mom! What can I do to get my husband to quit? Smoking anything is not good if your pregnant my mom smoked with me I was 9lbs 8oz if ur preg best to do is cut back then quit that worked for me

When I found out I was pregnant a month ago, I quit everything until I did some research on the effects of marijuana on a fetus - I was curious because a friend of mine smoked both cigarettes and marijuana and her doctor encouraged her to quit smoking cigarettes first...

From everything i've read, mostly in government and fda-type reports, the only harmful effects to a child from marijuana are from smoking it and according to a few federal studies, children of mothers who smoked pot while pregnant actually scored higher on developmental tests at 18 months and 4 yrs. I'm not advocating it and I do believe it should stay illegal for a variety of reasons, but I also believe it should be an individual right to decide to continue smoking while pregnant, as it has never been proven there to be any adverse effects worse than those of secondhand cigarette smoke, basically.

Personally, i've cut back on my marijuana intake but I know i'm not going to quit completely. Being young and struggling to get as much school completely as I can before having this baby, i'm often under a lot of stress and I believe the effects of stress would be worse on my child. I'm also a crystal meth addict ... Been to counseling, been to treatment, and the only thing that's kept me sober from it besides being locked up has been this child. I'm already scared to death because I was shooting dope the first two months, before I realized I was pregnant, and i'm doing everything possible now to stay healthy for this baby ... Those who have never suffered from addiction might not understand, but sometimes smoking pot is the only way to deal with my cravings for dope. It does nothing to help me actually overcome the addiction but being pregnant is hard enough without spending a day curled up in bed crying from the physical pain of wanting a shot of meth - it's been a month as of yesterday since i've done it but it still physically hurts how bad I want it sometimes and like the stress thing, I think that's worse on the baby than a hit or two of marijuana.

So personally, I intend on smoking now and then in moderation (although not after seven months, child services won't take my baby ... 'specially not if mothers of children with fetal alcohol syndrome get to keep their children). In the meantime, i'm going to start attending na meetings and trying to make some lifestyle changes so once my child is born I won't go back to destructive ways. And eventually, maybe i'll completely quit smoking pot ... For now I definitely don't feel selfish, I think i'm doing the right thing to 'control' my addiction as much as I can before I have the strength to overcome it - as much as I don't want to, my child deserves a better life ... I think that rules out the selfish concept.

I agree with you