Smoking in Pregnancy
Smoking is harmful throughout pregnancy. Stopping will benefit you and your baby immediately.
Health risks for you
- More complications during pregnancy and labour.
- Increased risk of miscarriage, bleeding, and sickness
- Increased risk of premature birth or still birth.
Benefits to Stopping Smoking during pregnancy
- Less morning sickness
- Fewer complications
- A more content baby after delivery
Health risks for your baby
- Lower birth weight
- Slower growth of your baby
- Higher chance of cot death
- Damage to airways which could lead to breathing problems and asthma.
Specialist Smoking in Pregnancy Service
Protecting babies from tobacco smoke in pregnancy and childhood really helps them get a healthier start in life.
The Wolverhampton Stop Smoking Service offers specialist advice to pregnant woman and their families. Home visits can be arranged or just pop in to one of our ‘drop in’ sessions throughout the town.
For further information contact the Wolverhampton Stop Smoking Service by calling freephone 0800 073 42 42, or email on stopsmokingservice@wolvespct.nhs.uk, or speak to your GP or Midwife.
Smoke Free Homes
The Smoke free Homes initiative has been launched to try to reduce young children’s exposure to tobacco smoke in the home environment. It hopes to achieve this by:
- Raising the public’s awareness of the health risks of smoking around children.
- Encourage adults (not only parents, but also friends, carers and other relatives) who smoke around children to change their behaviour.
For more information log on to:
http://www.westmidlandsmokefreehomes.co.uk/
