pot and pregnancy

just wanted to say that i admitt to smoking pot while pregnant and my 10 month old is very happy, very healthy and bigger and more advanced than other babies. i had a lot of problems with sickness and eating, and from that stress so i started to do some research and found a lot of info on marijuana being safe. i read an extensive study from jamaica where they studied babies born from mothers who toked and some who did not. the babies born from tokers where actually healthier, happy and more alert than babies born from non-tokers. the study was a good clean study as the mothers who toked did not smoke cigs, drink or do other drugs whereas american studies didn't weed out the these other influences. just wanted to say that toking a little once a week was my savior mentally and physically during my pregnancy and i'd do it again with my next baby. canabis is medicine, not a drug.

well congrats on a very healthy 10 month old. thats actually kinda cool that someone has done research on that.

no man you cant smoke while you preg, dont try to justify it someone esle will try it now, you got lucky.

I new a gurl who smoked crack while preg, her baby came out perfect but lets all agree you shouldnt smoke crack or weed or cigs or anything while prego.

glad you are happy and healthy...

but burning things and inhaling the fumes is lame....

gotta go smoke.. now..

bye

I agree, that's extremely irresponsible. You got lucky. If you're pregnant, you should eat a perfect diet and exercise every day. Be very careful about what you put into your body. I don't think you should injest any medicine at all.

of all u people here who were quick to judge this girl--- how many of u have actually been pregnant? u can't judge someones situation unless u have been there. my friend is preg and on methadone, certainly not an ideal situation but its better than her getting back on junk. i talked to a high risk fetal specialist about this and she told me that the danger of smoking pot during preg is not from the thc or anything, its from the smoking itself, as it lowers blood-oxygen levels. but a tiny little baby gets plenty of oxygen in the beginning. she told me by 4 or 5 months preg the baby has grown big enough to start demanding more oxygen, thats why mothers begin to take deeper breathes at this point, and this is when pot smoking could begin to affect the baby. low oxygen levels CAN produce underweight babys, but you would also have to be a pretty heavy smoker to really cause that effect. also, you can safely eat or vaporize pot all through pregnency because it is the smoking that causes the harmful effects, not the pot. i think a lot of the anti-pot sentiment is because it is an illegal drug. I mean think about all the drugs babies get during labor and birth if the mother doesn't have a natural childbrith (and most don't!) or the mass painkillers c-sec moms get that are given to the baby in breastmilk.

polypterus said:

of all u people here who were quick to judge this girl--- how many of u have actually been pregnant? u can't judge someones situation unless u have been there. my friend is preg and on methadone, certainly not an ideal situation but its better than her getting back on junk. i talked to a high risk fetal specialist about this and she told me that the danger of smoking pot during preg is not from the thc or anything, its from the smoking itself, as it lowers blood-oxygen levels. but a tiny little baby gets plenty of oxygen in the beginning. she told me by 4 or 5 months preg the baby has grown big enough to start demanding more oxygen, thats why mothers begin to take deeper breathes at this point, and this is when pot smoking could begin to affect the baby. low oxygen levels CAN produce underweight babys, but you would also have to be a pretty heavy smoker to really cause that effect. also, you can safely eat or vaporize pot all through pregnency because it is the smoking that causes the harmful effects, not the pot. i think a lot of the anti-pot sentiment is because it is an illegal drug. I mean think about all the drugs babies get during labor and birth if the mother doesn't have a natural childbrith (and most don't!) or the mass painkillers c-sec moms get that are given to the baby in breastmilk.

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hey I dont know if you read the comments but i dont think anyone judged anything,

the theme is, do not smoke anything while pregnent, thats it. that is the advice a pot smoking mother should get when searching this info on this forum.

you seem overly defensive. I know someone who did shit like that however her baby came out very very messed up. so pls everyone is a grown person and will do what they will, im just advising anyone considering it to not do it.

9 months is not a lifetime, if your husband can stand nine months of you womens insane mood swings when your preg then you can survive for nine months eating anything you like just dont smoke.

How about eating weed then? If you had pot cookies would that be bad for the baby? It would seem not if only the smoke or lack of oxygen is what's bad for the baby.

The brain is affected when smoking pot. Chemical changes happen. Your baby will also feel that.

You wanted the joint,your baby had @@ck all say in the matter, and no smoking didnt help it to be healthy........if you cant stay of the weed/crack/meth........stay off the cock, you'l find it helps

Yeah.... i dont think anybody was being to harsh.... or even judging her ...

and yes you're right it is better to get your foot chopped off with an axe then get your head bit off by a shark...

but they are both NOT good... and it is POSSIBLE to avoid both... yes, possible...

never argue your limitations... THEY WILL BECOME YOURS TO KEEP!!

iloveyou

very happy that she is happy and the baby is healthy...

Cool deal.
If I was pregnant I'd prolly still toke every once in a while, especially if I didn't feel good.
My friends mom smoked a lot of ciggy's, and when she got pregnant the doctor's told her to keep smoking. Her body would have gone through too harsh of a shock to quit than to just keep smoking. And he's perfectly healthy and big.

lex said:

just wanted to say that i admitt to smoking pot while pregnant and my 10 month old is very happy, very healthy and bigger and more advanced than other babies. i had a lot of problems with sickness and eating, and from that stress so i started to do some research and found a lot of info on marijuana being safe. i read an extensive study from jamaica where they studied babies born from mothers who toked and some who did not. the babies born from tokers where actually healthier, happy and more alert than babies born from non-tokers. the study was a good clean study as the mothers who toked did not smoke cigs, drink or do other drugs whereas american studies didn't weed out the these other influences. just wanted to say that toking a little once a week was my savior mentally and physically during my pregnancy and i'd do it again with my next baby. canabis is medicine, not a drug.

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Good for you for to be honest, Screw all that judge you.
I did tons of reseach on the very same subject. When I got pregnant I smoked cigs and weed. I quit the cigs as soon as found out. Researched the hell out of marijuana and pregancy and choose to have a couple tokes here and there. My daughter is now 5 and is perfectly healthy and more advanced than most kids her age that she is exposed too. She can read, write words, count very high etc. I am not saying pot had anything to do with that, but I am saying I don't think it harmed her in anyway. Cigarettes on the other hand, my mother smoked cigs all through her pregancy and I have many allergies, is this a link to the smoking? Not sure, probably. But we all exposed to many other harsh stuff out there too, how can we tell if it directly linked to smoking, you can't. To each thier own.

wow..... i dont think admitting that to people like your proud of it is smart,keep that to yourself.

Personally id smack the shit out of my girlfriend if she did that, i mean thats my kid to, and i dont feel that someone has the right to choose something like that kinda selfish if you ask me

Mr.Pyrex said:

wow..... i dont think admitting that to people like your proud of it is smart,keep that to yourself.

Personally id smack the shit out of my girlfriend if she did that, i mean thats my kid to, and i dont feel that someone has the right to choose something like that kinda selfish if you ask me

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And smacking the shit out of your girlfriend when pregnant is ok is it?

shame on all the pot smokers. just set us back 20 years. pot and crack grouped together. i guess you all still feel it is a dangerous drug. for shame.

i guess it's hard to undo almost 80 years of brainwashing, isn't it?

i won't condone smoking it. if you are having nausea and all you can eat is a cracker and a sip of soda, isn't this somewhat unhealthy? maybe vaporise or ingest. something to increase appetite. i can't see how mild use of marijuana is going to cause birth issues. i could start a list of all the people i know and the history of their childrens development. i have yet to find any "proven" negative effects directly related to marijuana. maybe that would be a good place to start. i read a lot about how it makes you infertile. if that's the case then how the f*ck are you pregnant in the first place?

shame, shame

Yeah for toking mothers!!

Yeah, using the volcano would be really good if you had to. Don't smoke a damn blunt.