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2. Maternal health Alcohol When you drink, alcohol reaches your baby through the placenta. Too much exposure to alcohol can seriously affect your baby’s development. Because of this risk, pregnant women or women trying to conceive should avoid drinking alcohol. If you do choose to drink, then protect your baby by not drinking more than 1 to 2 units of alcohol once or twice a week and don’t get drunk (1 unit of alcohol = half a pint of lager or a small glass of wine). Additional advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) advises women to avoid alcohol in the first three months in particular, because of the increased risk of miscarriage. When you drink, the alcohol passes from your blood through the placenta to your baby. A baby’s liver is one of the last organs to develop fully and does not mature until the latter half of pregnancy. Your baby cannot process alcohol as well as you can. If you are drinking with friends: • Find a non-alcohol drink that you enjoy • Sip any alcohol you do drink slowly to make it last • Don’t let people pressure you into drinking, and • Avoid getting drunk Help and Support Getting help with drinking: If you have difficulty cutting down what you drink, talk to your pharmacist or other healthcare professional. Confidential help and support is available from local counselling services (look in the telephone directory or contact Drinkline on 0800 917 8282) You should talk to your midwife if you have any concerns you have about your drinking around the time of conception and early pregnancy. You can get more advice from www.nhs.uk/units Drinking is not just dangerous for the baby in the first three months; alcohol can affect your baby throughout pregnancy. If you drink heavily during pregnancy, problems may develop these are known as Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS). Children with this syndrome have: • Restricted Growth • Facial Abnormalities • Learning and Behavioural Difficulties Drinking more than 1 to 2 units once or twice a week, as well as binge drinking, may be associated with lesser forms of FAS. The risk is likely to be greater the more you drink. 18
Smoking in pregnancy Protecting your baby from tobacco smoke is one of the best things you can do to give your child a healthy start in life. It’s never too late to stop. Every cigarette smoked in pregnancy harms the unborn baby. Cigarettes restrict the essential oxygen supply to your baby, so their heart has to beat harder every time you smoke. When you smoke, carbon monoxide and other poisons pass into your lungs. This means that: • Your baby gets less oxygen and cannot grow as well as it should. • The nicotine makes your baby’s heart beat faster. Breathing in other people’s smoke makes the baby more likely to suffer from asthma attacks, chest infections, coughs and colds, and to be admitted to hospital. Stopping smoking will benefit you and your baby immediately. Carbon monoxide and chemicals will clear from the body and oxygen levels will return to normal. If you stop smoking: • You’ll have less morning sickness and fewer complications in pregnancy. • Your baby is less likely to be underweight and have extra problems in keeping warm. Babies of mothers who smoke are, on average, 200g (about 7oz) lighter than other babies. These babies may have problems during and after labour, and are more prone to infection. • You’ll reduce the risk of cot death. The sooner you stop, the better. But stopping even in the last few weeks of pregnancy can be beneficial. If your partner or anyone else who lives with you smokes, their smoke can affect you and the baby both before and after birth. They can help you and the baby by giving up now. Perhaps you could try to stop together. Second-hand smoke can cause low birth weight and cot death. Babies whose parents are smokers are more likely to be admitted to hospital for bronchitis and pneumonia during the first year of life. For more information and advice log onto the maternity web site at www.barnsleyhospital. nhs.uk selecting M for maternity or contact your GP, pharmacist or call the Family Information Services on 0800 0345 340 • You’re more likely to have a healthier pregnancy and a healthier baby. • You’ll reduce the risk of stillbirth. • You’ll cope better with the birth. • Your baby will cope better with any birth complications. • Your baby is less likely to be born too early and to face the additional breathing, feeding and health problems that often come with prematurity. 19
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