Pregnancy and Cannabis

Your personal opinions (all welcome) on the use and consumption of pot during pregnancy. Do you do it? Did you do it? Are you against it? Do you know someone who did it? Is one toke in your opinion going to make a difference? Share your personal stories or your disagreement on it.

 

I'm pretty sure my mom did it, butt i'me aganst itt.

 

I think it is a personal choice!! I honestly dont think it does that much harm, I have never done it though.

 

OK, I'm going to sign off after this...so if I'm de-railed, I'll have to hear about it tomorrow. First off...my son is handsome, 6'4" betw 195-205, but more importantly well adjusted. I know he will drink every now and then socially; and has tried weed...but said it made him "feel paranoid and funny". He said he'd be able to do it only rarely and in "the right situation". lol - every day is right to me...but anyway.

Yes, when I was pregnant, such a humongous deal was not made of it...and I quit toking at about 6 1/2 to 7 mos along because he would get to all but dancing in there. Doing the Watusi, I'd call it. My mother-in-law slipped up and caught me with a bamboo bong once...jeez...I made up ridiculous story. I never, ever took nor considered taking or doing any other "drug." I assembled my own regimen of vitamens - no made pre-natals for me. lol
I worked a "regular, good" job, 8:30 - 5:00, and would toke a bit when I came home, until like I said the last couplea, few months.

But I would not recommend it now at all...b/c they watch every expectant mother like hawks and it isn't worth the trouble it could bring you.

I also found it really scared me later, after I had my boy, that I had smoked weed, and what if...talk about feeling bad and terribly grateful at the same time. Anyhoo...can't say there were any bad effects whatsoever but there was a time it helped with my nausea.

 

Yes they do watch new expecting moms like hawks, what up with that lol.
Anyways you won't hear..or read we should say.. any criticism from me. I am not for or against. I know that smoking anything during pregnancy deprives the fetus of oxygen during. So it's better to eat pot instead..but it's much better for a mother to have a couple tokes then to be anxious 24/7. Stress hurts the unborn more. Anyways. Your son sounds like he turned out amazingly. :sunny:

 

Thank you very much, wild-flowers.

Not lying to him and not being a total drugged-out fool and/or alcoholic also helped.

Parents these days are almost scared (it seems to me) to bring up their chidren with principles, morals, ya' know? It makes a happier and most surely more well-adjusted grown-up, not always dwelling on themselves, if you bring 'em up right.

And wrongfully, weed is associated with all these many negative things it'll do...bullshit. In my own way, I always thought (silently until I felt the need to share it with the freakin world tonight) that he was my own personal inner proof that weed is not bad for your mind/brain.

His tested IQ is higher than mine, I know...just to say...it surely is NOT going to make an unborn child low in intelligence/retarded. I actually read that years ago - and it made me furious. :bomb:

Thanks for listening and not judging.

 

I think it's irresponsible. I don't think it's the end of the world, but it would be much better not to. If you're choosing to share your body, you should do it right, if not, get a fucking abortion!

Lynn, not saying anything against you, sounds like it went okay, and I know people who are pretty bright and who's parents used drugs. But I still don't think it's a good idea, really....

WF, NO, I think edibles are a horrible idea, it's much more intense, which means getting the unborn kid that much higher. Vaporizing a small amount might be okay in some situations, but even that would be a rather poor idea, IMO.

It WOULD be interesting to see a study on the effects of different levels of smoking, at birth, and regular intervals through a persons live. This would probably be considered immoral, and as such, we'll never learn conclusively. I think that it's harmless enough that a coordinated study is in order, but going and smoking and saying "they turned out fine, so it's okay" is NOT the same, and is not the right thing to do.

 

You really are right, RooRshack.
But I also quit during those last 2 months. But I do think most of the mind was pretty much developed at that point. But still, I cannot abide nor condone the use of pills, coke or any of that other crap that women regularly do while being pregnant. I don't understand that...how could a woman do that?

Edit: I didn't mean to start every single sentence with But, but the last one. lol

 

I'm not for or against roor. Just providing facts, i'm neutral like switzerland. And everyones opinions are welcome. As for the pot eatables argument (whether it would get the fetus higher) it really is dependent on how much you put in them. Anyways no sense on making any mothers guilty for their choices, they don't have dolorians and I am yet to hear a pregnancy horror story because a mother chose to hit the bong occasionally to sooth stress and nausea. (since you literally cannot take much of anything to sooth your discomfort).

I personally would not smoke or eat cannabis while incubating lol.
But there are reasons why women might choose to, carrying around a bowling ball in their uterus for 9 months comes with symptoms.
You are a man and in this life will not experience the delight that is carrying and delivering a little person into this world.

Don't be forgetful that this is also her body.
Telling women to get abortions instead of smoking marijuana while pregnant is like bombing for peace or fucking for virginity. If you were concerned about the welfare of the innocent fetus you wouldn't or I should say shouldn't suggest a women take it's life entirely. Especially when there has been no evidence that enjoying cannabis during results in birth defects.

It's also an extremely insensitive thing to suggest to any women. That is a highly personal choice.

 

I had a friend who when she got pregnant-was smoking daily. When she found out she was preggers, she quit-However- she started to lose too much weight and after 4 or 5 months the doctor said she was 6 lbs underweight and her baby was in danger. She started smoking again and the only negative side effect-she gained weight-which in this case was a positive side effect.
I say if it helps you and the baby stay 'healthy',,,do it. My mother smoked when she was pregnant and i turned out healthy and normal.

Just make sure any MJ is out of your system when you give birth and breastfeeding--b/c any trace in a blood test and they will yank your baby away so fast you don't know what happened.

 

A female friend of mien smoked while pregnant.

Her baby came out healthy, big, and has been advanced so far in all the tests.

She didn't smoke the last month or so, and looked into it a lot online before making her decision.

 

This is such a touchy subject...

I think it's all about weighing the risks--if your so neauseas you can't gain weight that's unhealthy for the baby. Maybe in that case a little toke every now and then is ok because it let's you eat which is healthy for the baby. Same thing for stress. If a little toke is going to keep your Bp from going through the roof, hey, that's ok with me.

If you're just smoking to get high, that's incredibly selfish, and the benefit doesn't outweigh the possible risks.

That being said, I know plenty of women that had healthy, above average kids that smoked while they were pregnant, but I also know some that had a few...that maybe got a little buzzed in-utero. Who can every really know what could've been, so it's prolly not a good idea to chance it.

 

I didn't do it while I was pregnant, but I'm not against it. I just rarely ever smoke anyways, so I decided to simply not smoke.

I did smoke while breastfeeding.

 

messed up!!!!!!!! i would be soooo mad if i got a chick pregnant and she was blazing!

 

there HAVE been several studies done, for those who want to find them... I did my research on it all through my pregnancy(still pregnant today) and there have been ABSOLUTELY NO VALID STUDIES saying that smoking marijuana while pregnant was harmful to unborn babies... in fact, there are several studies showing the effects are beneficial, resulting in higher IQ, better motor-development, cognition, etc... they studied these childern at birth and every 2-5 years after and not a single one was "delayed" or "impacted" by being ganga-babies.

there are many places in the world where smoking marijuana is much more highly accepted and there are plenty of women who DO smoke up during pregnancy, one of the studies I read was done in Jamaica and done there because if it had been done in the US, it is harder to study marijuana during pregnanct because there is more instance of mothers also using drugs OTHER than marijuana...

I'm not going to rattle on and on here because as was said before, new mothers are watched like hawks these days and for mostly ligitimate reasons....
I will say that after reading some of these studies I actally felt bad for NOT smoking weed whilst pregnant, I don't agree with smoking, drinking or any other substance abuse while pregnant but based on MY research, marijuana is at LEAST harmless to unborn children and can be shown to BENEFIT these children (very much, i believe, linked to the fact that their mothers experience far less stress and far more peacefulness during pregnancy... babies in bellies KNOW when their momma is feeling good or bad... I KNOW THIS)

all this being said I WILL say that I did not smoke anything while pregnant NOT because i was concerned it would hinder his development, but because it DOES cross the placenta and if you get high, baby gets high... and I just didn't sit well with the idea of getting my little guy high against his own decisions... he's a new little life and deserves a say in what's done to him, exactly why i am against circumcision or putting brand name clothing on small children, cloth diapering as not to impact the environment and his sensitive bottom... etc etc...



just my 2 cents...

 

also forgot to mention that mrijuana has a greater impact while breastfeeding than while pregnant because THC is a fat-soluble substance and more of it gets passed into the milk than whould cross the placenta in the bloodstream.

 

if a person can't put aside their vices for a mere nine months, then i don't think they are responsible enough to be having children.

 

They may still do okay, may pass IQ tests, etc, but:

As you said, it gets the baby high.

From what I can see in people who started smoking marijuana early in their life, say 8-14 years of age, they may be very smart people, it doesn't "dull" them, but they have all of SHIT for self control, and they're smart but don't always have the best logical skills. And along with that self control, they also show a marked lack of "morals", not in the religious sense but in the hedonistic sense of being unable to stick to their own principles.

I started smoking at 15, and I don't THINK I display these problems, but I would credit that to cutting back greatly, by force. I moved where I couldn't get weed very often, and thought about it 24/7 for a year or so, before I finally got to where I am now.... I get high on life, and often choose not to smoke if I have pot, I don't think about it when I don't have it. People who had unfettered access to it while younger don't show this kind of control, and I've seen others who had LIMITED access to it who seemed to turn out more like me. But a fetus is just saturated in THC, it's got a tiny brain compared to you and has NO experience with anything of that nature.

I would expect the same personality changing effects to apply, only considerably more given the size of the baby's brain, in this case. And on that basis, I'd consider it dumb to smoke while pregnant. Maybe not as bad as it could be, and considerably better than drinking or smoking cigarettes, but still selfish and not the best choice.

Now of COURSE in situations where the mother needs pain medication (for the sake of the fetus too, to keep it from being exposed to stress hormones, increased blood pressure, etc) it's OODLES better to smoke pot than take prescription opiates, benzos, even muscle relaxers and stuff. I wouldn't deny that. I just don't think it should be smoked habitually, at will. You shouldn't be a stoner while pregnant. (Note that most other times, I think being a stoner is just fine and dandy, and willingly apply the label to myself)


I know I repeated myself in there a few times, but that's my rant.

 

It's a personal choice but I didn't smoke cigs or hash from the moment I even thought there may be a slight chance that I was pregnant. I don't know if it made a difference or not, I just chose to do what for me seemed the sensible thing.

 

my opinion is the same as this guys