Pot and pregnancy

you know, this girl needs some compassion, some LOVE.

dark rose has the right idea.

girly, i hope everything works out for you, please dont smoke bud while you are carrying a child... it just doesnt work. i am only a year younger than you... and to think if i was you, i would be a mother in like 2 years... thats scary.

i wish you the best of luck....

 

I had to sit there and smile the other day while a woman told me she was still puffing while pregnant and then said "besides, it makes the baby smarter".
I swear I wanted to smack her so friggin hard................................

 

Smarter? BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! You should have whacked her one, I would have. right upside the head too.

 

Ok, I barely even know if i can say everything i want too...Some of you are talking to her like she's a thing, some of you are telling her to kill a poor innocent baby, and some are telling her to give it up (when you barely even know her situation), and oh i dont even know what else...On the pot issue, i wouldn't do it because it does cause low birth weight, and low birth weight could equal sickness at birth...I'm seventeen also, and i've already had a few preggie scares, but being a second mother to my nephews, i have a good amount of parenting skill...but this is not about me, this is about what assholes you're most of you are being...anyway, peace.

 

i'll bet its better in moderation than alot of what a doc would perscribe

 

i havent read the whole thread as i cant be arsed to lol.


smoking ANYTHING while pregnant will deprive the baby of oxygen. which isnt good, if you put your head in a bag or something and one of your mates kept shutting of the oxygen supply you would get pretty ill and things - agreed? (dont try that though)

it can stunt the baby's growth, your baby could be born earlier than you expectct and have other things wrong with it, e.g asthma, you have to think of it from your baby's point of view, for example if you where looking after your mates kids would you blow your smoke from your joint in their face, the answer should be no.

Everything you eat, drink, breathe etc. you baby does to.

also why is this in the medical weed part? is it for medical use or just cause you like getting stoned?

 

My sister accidentally smoked i think once or twice before she even knew she was pregnant, she talked to her doctor and he said that the most harmful period towards the baby would be smoking in the vary early stages of development, and smoking during the last month or two is not a good idea, but if you were to smoke, it would be the best time.

She smoked one time with me during the last month, she successfully had her baby delivered, perfectly good health, and it was a big baby too(not sure about the exact weight). Its been ~2 months and the baby is doing just fine..healthy as can be. However, I agree with what everyone has posted so far, about how its completely stupid to smoke while being pregnant and the odds should not be challenged.

Good luck with your baby..

 

You know using drugs during pregnancy is stupid. But wait. Isnt pot a herb that is naturally grown on this planet? Isnt pot used to cure nasea for cancer patients? Now before you all start ranting and raving you have to understand from the mothers point of view. Picture yourself throwing up so violently you are crying and sweating and you cant breath between chucks. Now picture this lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Then you get a 5 minute break so you try to eat. Two bites in and you are in the bathroom again for another 15 mins. Repeat all day and all night with no ability to keep down a cracker of sip of water. Proceed till you start vomitting blood and then go to emergency room. Now go back to when you are vomitting violently and you get a 5 minute break. What if you smoke a little weed then instead of ending up in the bathroom you are able to eat and keep it in your stomach. You dont go to the emergency room and you have the ability to get up off the bathroom floor. Now I know most of you who are badmouthing this poor women have not been pregnant and dont know what its like. If she is smoking pot for pleasure then thats not good but if you are just trying to prevent yourself from starving and having to be put on a feeding tube at the hospital then I say she is making the right choice for her and the baby. How can your baby be healthy if you cant eat or drink water for days??? Pot has never been known to hurt anyone. Studies have said pot will probably bring down the babies weight at birth and risks related with a low birthweight baby but that is also from smoking cigs and they have a hard time finding pot smokers and not cig smokers.

ALL YOU bad mouthers do your research. Find out what doctors say. All the doctors I have seen know and they tell me I am doing what needs to be done to stay healthy.

 

If you get morning sickness there are loads more things to try weed NOT being one of them. There are lots and lots of natural things - weed isnt a good idea - how are you getting on?

 

I'm gonna have to step in here and say that as someone that deals with nausea on a regular basis, due to a vestibular disorder, there are NOT loads more things to try for some people. I've tried absolutely everything suggested and NOTHING works except for 2 things: pot, which works really well, and valium, which only helps if you can keep the little bastard down long enough for it to work (and it still doesn't work as well as pot).

I don't know if I've mentioned this before or not but I had a friend who was starved to the point of malnutrition and near death during her pregnancy, and none of the anti-nausea meds she was given worked for her, if she could even get one down. It's a wonder she lived through her first trimester, but she did. However she lost so much weight that both her and her baby's life were in danger. If pot had been an option (if she smoked it) I would have had no objections when the only two choices were to either dangerously starve or smoke a LITTLE bit JUST enough to help get some nutrition of some sort down.

That said, I do think women should refrain from smoking as much as they possibly can, but not if it means starving to death.

 

I think the sick people get in pregnancy is different - if anyone has anything wrong with them medically they proberly shouldnt be smoking pot at all.

There are loads of other things people can try - there are new drugs coming on the market every week for sickness its just finding them thats hardest. Believe me - there are lots that will work but alot of people just give up on them, I would seriosuly consider doing something else for sickness and not smoking weed to get rid of it

 

uh........Born in the 70s ALL of my friends parents smoked weed during pregnancy, some doctors have recommended it, and none of those babies had those listed problems. They all grew up, got college degrees, and are now healthy well balanced professionals in 2006.

Having ever taking any type of chemical birthcontrol is much more risky than injesting marijuana while during pregnancy.

THAT SAID.....as stated earlier, smoking anything during pregnancy can be harmful to some, not all, but some.

My mom is a Pharm D. I grew up in a pharmacy lab, I know a little bit about how chemicals react in bodies. First thing is, every BODY is unique in relation to the ways that chemicals react inside and out. THere are very few black and white areas in pharmacology.


Marijuana wasn't really smoked much before the 1900s, people used eat it as candy, mostly. YOu can make marijuana butter and cook with it, getting a variation of the same effects as smoking, sometimes even to a more extensive degeree.

 

to the OP:

don't rely on stories, good or bad, of dope-smoking preggies. you need to understand that smoking pot IS bad for your baby and increases the CHANCE that your baby will NOT be normal. if you can put two and two together, this means that if your friend says "oh, i smoked pot when i was pregnant and my baby is fine," you cannot assume that the same will hold true for you. also, just because a baby is born relatively normal does not mean it will DEVELOP normally.

if you love your baby, then you already know what's right. on the other hand, if you love weed so much that you don't mind putting a human being at risk for having a horrible life, then i'd consider you to be an awful person and you should never have become pregnant in the first place.

 

I think that your doctor's opinion is far better than any you can get on the internet. Your doctor knows the particulars of your situation in a way that no one on the net can. If you don't trust your doctor's knowlege or judgement, why are you letting them catch the baby?

 

NO!!!

That is SUCH a bad idea. Don't smoke, don't drink, don't toke.

You have to think of your baby for the next 9 months. Not yourself.

Good for you for asking though. Now you know!

 

Bree I agree with you. I tried everything the doctors told me to do. I mean everything. I was thinking about my babies health and my health. Honestly people do you know how much making a baby can take out of you if you cant eat at all? I was so weak I couldnt get up off the bathroom floor to go back to bed to rest for a few minutes. I was in constant pain ( and I get migranes and can handle pain) from my head to my toes. I'm not complaing I am trying to let you guys see the side of the fence. How long does it take for someone to starve to death? I never want to find out.
The moment I had a suspicion I was pregnant I stopped smoking pot. When I got the postitive test results I was still only feeling mild nausea. With in a few days I quit my job because I was in the bathroom the whole day. I couldnt do my job. I am now 18 weeks and my nausea should have stopped or slowed down. I used to have to eat something every two hours (after a toke) so I wouldnt be in severe pain. They say if you have food in your stomach it helps with nausea. I would take two bites and throw it all up if I didnt have a toke that day. Now I can go 5 hours in between meals. Which means I can sleep 5 hours without having to wake up in pain and vomit. I am still sick up to 5 or 6 times a day even with the help of a little pot. I only smoke as much as I need to get a few good meals in and be able to get up and do what needs to be done.
If you say I have thought for my baby then you are dead wrong. That is all I think about. I follow what my doctors tell me and I have now been able to put on two pounds. I would not be healthy if I couldnt eat and I couldnt eat if I didnt toke a bit. Dont judge when you havent been in my or her shoes.

 

AND DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!

There have been issues with the drugs doctors give for morning sickness. Severe birthdefects. I took DICLECTIN which I just found out is illegal in the USA. I wonder why. At the hospital they gave me a prescription for a drug they give cancer patients. They never said it was safe or not. I am glad I never took it. I would rather take something natural then man-made!

 

Guess what ARSE ...its not the love of WEED...its the will to live and be healthy so your child can be healthy...if you dont eat your baby doesnt eat

 

This is the only MALE who knows anything on this thread. You are right. I would listen to my doctor before any of these people. And I do that is why I can come here and know what I am talking about. Im not just ranting about my personal opinions and putting down a 17 yr old girl who is having a hard time and trying to do the right thing. Just because you dont think its right doesnt give you the right to tell her to kill her baby

 

would the doctor know that u had been smoking after examining you? and if so, could it be reported as abuse? maybe it is a dumb question, but i just thought of it and these days i wouldnt doubt it