I've had mixed reactions with pregnant women and smoking...Her reasoning was that since she smoked all during her pregnancies with me and my brother, and we turned out fine (physically.. I don't put too much store into my brother's mental state ), I didn't have a whole lot of room to talk.
Sorry to hear that Karen, that would have bothered me a lot. I've heard (though it might have been just friends and me theorizing) that whether or not smoking is harmful to your unborn child is gentetic. If your mom got away with it, theoretically, you could. I've talked to women (like Karen's mom apparently
) who said they'd smoked throughout all their pregnancies and never even had one problem - not even premature birth, which I hear is one of the more common side effects along with low birth weight. I wouldn't want to tempt fate, not when SIDS is looming out there as a possible reaction.
And besides, I already said I didn't want to smoke around my children...gives me the perfect excuse to quit!
After 9 months without a cigarette, think how easy it'll be to *not* ever pick one up again.
Sara (who's wondering if she should start a little piggy bank here, considering she's put in *way* more than two cents
)
