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An easy decision, smoking or breastfeeding?
from:The decision between smoking or breastfeeding is easy, because smoking and breastfeeding are bad for mom and baby. Both will suffer the ill effects of the toxins and poisons contained in cigarettes. Even though the truth about smoking has been known for many years, many women continue to smoke during pregnancy and while they are breastfeeding. In fact, some women smoke during breastfeeding.
When it comes to smoking or breastfeeding, nursing mothers should know that it is a dangerous practice that should be avoided. The risk to the baby is compounded if the mother smokes more than 20 cigarettes per day. However, any amount of cigarette smoking is harmful to a baby. The more cigarettes a woman smokes, the more harmful the effects are to her baby.
For some nursing mothers, heavy smoking can reduce a mother’s milk supply and on rare occasions can cause symptoms in the breastfeeding baby, including nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea.
Smoking or breastfeeding means that a woman must choose between smoking and breastfeeding, because the effects of smoking are harmful to her and her baby.
When a nursing mother smokes a cigarette the nicotine levels in her blood and milk increase and decrease over a certain period of time. If a mother smokes a cigarette just before or during feeding, the risk to the baby is high. The half-life of the nicotine, the amount of time it takes for half the nicotine to be eliminated from the body, is ninety-five minutes.
When it comes to breastfeeding or smoking, maternal smoking has been linked to early weaning, lowered milk production, and inhibition of the milk ejection or the let down reflex. Thus, many women decide to quit smoking before and during pregnancy for the benefit of their own health and the health of their babies.
Mothers who enjoy breastfeeding and smoking may cause their infants to be fussier than infants whose mothers do not smoke. These babies may even be colicky.
Whether or not a mother is breastfeeding or smoking, a baby should not be exposed to second hand smoke from people who are smoking cigarettes around him or her. Breathing second hand smoke poses health hazards, including respiratory illness, stunted development and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS.
While most people are aware of the health risks associated with cigarette smoking, including the development of lung, lip, mouth and tongue cancer, many people continue to smoke and allow others to smoke around them.
If a mother smokes cigarettes, she is advised to quit. However, she is still advised to breastfeed her baby as many experts agree that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the consequences of smoking. A mother can still enjoy the benefits of breastfeeding, even if she smokes.
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