Pot and pregnancy

I'm pregnant and i really don't want to give up my weed. Also I don't know how I will get through morning sickness without it. My mother used it with my sister and she is normal, i just don't know.
does anyone have opinions or stories you can share with me?
thanks

 

Here is an article on the subject coming from a reputable site (New Scientist). They did find that pot use during pregnancy damages kids' learning.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn3543

Here's info from Erowid:
http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_myth7.shtml

 

Please don't take that chance. Your baby can and probably will be born deformed and/or mentally slow.

 

if i were you, i would stop smoking. you don't want to blame yourself for the rest of your life if something is wrong with the kid. if the kid does poorly in school, you don't want to spend the next 50 years on a guilt trip wondering if it would have thrived in school had you not smoked. if it comes out with a birth defect or down syndrome or even a learning disability, you don't want that hanging over your head. even if the kid turns out to be really intelligent and social and healthy, you don't want to always have that thought in the back of your mind that maybe the kid would have been more social or intelligent or healthy had you put down the pipe. you might not know for sure if/how the pot effected the kid, but you don't want the rest of your life filled with "what ifs". it'll be difficult for the next few months, but it will make the rest of your life so much easier.

when you're pregnant, you've gotta make a lot of sacrifices, and you've gotta do a lot of things you dislike. if you have the strength to give up pot, imagine all the other wonderful things you have the strength to do for your child. giving up pot while you're pregnant seems like it is just one of the first steps in setting a good, responsible pattern of making your child your #1 priority.

i don't mean to pry, so excuse me, but if you're living with the father and he smokes, he might be willing to give that up with you, to make it easier. you know, teamwork. if fresh smoke isn't being emitted from the next room, you won't struggle with it as much.

also, if it weren't for the morning sickness aspect, would you still consider smoking? i'll look up some alternative cures for morning sickness and get back to you. off the top of my head i think some herbal teas help with that. but if you're just using that as an excuse to allow you to keep smoking, it's going to be a lot harder to quit, and it'll be even more important that you do quit.

 

eat small, freaquent healthy meals throughout the day, rather than a few large meals. the nih suggests eating every 1-2 hours. don't skip meals. sosmorningsickness.com says to not drink liquids during your meal, but to drink half an hour before or after your meal. drink 8 glasses of water a day.

avoid strong smells.

stand up slowly and do not lay down right after you eat.

eat a few crackers or dry toast 15 minutes before you get out of bed in the morning.

the nih suggests having a small snack if you get up to pee in the middle of the night.

the nih also suggests eating lots of protein and complex carbohydrates, like peanut butter, nuts, etc. avoid fatty/salty foods. b6 suppliments can help, too.

there are medicines you can take, though you should talk to your doc about those, obviously. hope that helps! good luck!!!!

 

maybe you could just eat an incy wincy bit of weed?

 

Would you give up the weed when it comes time to look after the children, when they're born?

Kids need constant time attention and supervision. It scares me to think that anyone would get twisted with small children around. Especially if something happens to one of them, and you have to call the ambulance.

"Why didn't you drive Timmy to the doctor?"
"Uhhhhhh....."

That's a call from CPS on its way if ever I heard one...

 

omg...im sorry and dont mean to sound harsh but i think anyone who smokes anything or does alcohol/drugs while pregnant needs a brain cause obviously you are missing one.
If your baby isnt as important to you then your habbit, then maybe you shouldnt be having a baby in the first place..

 

I gave up smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol when I was pregnant. I would never have risked anything else. You are soley responsible for the wellbeing of that child. If you don't want to be then you shouldn't be having it. That goes for after it is born too.

 

Right.... I wouldnt want to take any chances with my baby....

 

I'm more concerned with after the baby is born.

Having a stoned mom around is rather worrying... no offense. I'm sure you're a kind, caring and conscientious person but as a father of two I know firsthand just how much 24/7 care and attention babies need.

 

don't do it. think about how wrong that is? This child needs a good mother. not someone, that is thinking about getting high or not. your child should come first not you. your putting yourself before your unborn child

 

Amen to the previous posts!

How whacked are your priorities to worry about getting high or not when your first priority now is your unborn child? You're not just a momma the moment that baby arrives. You're a momma now. You can't make selfish decisions that could harm this baby. Is that fair? Please, think of your baby before you do anything stupid or rash.

 

some people just can't do it. how much do you smoke now? are you still smoking?

 

Didn't you post in the natural abortion thread about how you shouldn't "kill your baby, it's only 9 months"? Well, take your own advice-it's only 9 months.

 

I think you should try to look at this from all angles, many people believe that the highs achieved by herbal solutions are not really highs but reconnecting to reality, perhaps she's thinking of how it could benefit her baby, you can't assume it's bad just because our society says so. How do you think indigenous people dealt in pregnancy. Many tribes in some country I can't think of would encourage partaking in marijuana-like herbs during pregnancy so that when the baby is born it is born with into a spiritual mindset and connected to the earth. Also it is very easy to take great care of babies and children 'high' it just depends on one's mindset beforehand whether they can take care of a baby, these things effect everyone differently, because it depends on what kind of personality and temperaments the person has anyway. It depends on that persons lifestyle. Now I'm not encouraging the use of herb during pregnancy, I don't know what kind of affect it has on babies, but I do know that a lot of supposed affects are made up by the government to scare people out of using marijuana. Anyway my point is to stop condemning this woman for asking a question, she hasn't gone through with it, she obviously cares very much about the state of her child or else she would have just kept smoking. She wants to know if there is any danger and if there is any benefit, in which case I understand her wanting to truly know that, I would like to know too, however it is pretty difficult to know these things because which sources do you trust? I don't trust Science Institution or whatever it is because I am aware that those sorts of organizations are paid by the government. Good luck to you in your quest and your pregnancy.

 

Probably is not true. There is no increased chance of deformity and minimal chance of learning disability (actually, it isn't even learning disabilities, just slightly affected learning ability compared to other kids their age) and low birth weight, according to the reputable studies. So it is up to the mother if it is worth the risk.

A mother that can't hold down any food or nutrition could possibly deal more damage to their baby than the pot-smoking mother avoiding morning sickness, for example. All these knee-jerk reactions to a mother smoking pot are just evidence that some are ill-informed.

Do the research, and make an informed decision on the subject matter. I have known women that smoked pot through their pregnancies (one through 3 pregnancies) and their babies all turned out healthy, and are very bright kids. I have known a vegetarian mother (and complete health nut), however, who's baby was born without proper muscle formation in her mouth and a bad liver due to the fact that the mother did not ingest the proper nutrition during pregnancy.

That being said, my husband and I are doing some family planing and have already decided we will not smoke during pregnancy. We have decided it isn't worth the risk.

 

this is why they need a license for becoming a parent..I am so sick of all the selfish people in this woprld...oh me me me grow the fuck up you're pregnant and you decided to keep it now be a decent human being

 

That's extremely obnoxious...

Who get's to set the standards for would-be parents for their license? You? Is anyone objective enough?

What would be the standards this license would require? Money? Paticular skin color? Being a heterosexuals couple? Being married at all? Being of a certain religion? Promising to never eat fast food, or sodas, breathe the polluted air, eat unorganic food, or anything that could be remotely dangerous to the baby?

Let's hope for people like you maturity (or lack of) and judgemental attitude wouldn't be a factor.

 

Exactly and anyone thinking otherwise is just plain selfish.