Smoking during breastfeeding - the consequences

Almost everyone knows that during pregnancy you can not smoke: it is very harmful to the fetus, causing malformations and severe hypoxia. But after the appearance of the crumbs, some particularly avid smokers decide that if they take a cigarette away from the baby one by one, it's okay. However, if the baby eats mother's milk, it can still cause him problems with health. After all, smoking with breastfeeding has quite dangerous consequences.

How can you harm your child without giving up smoking?

Even the most expensive and high-quality cigarette contains a large concentration of nicotine and other harmful substances that can seriously harm the baby. Consider what irreversible consequences smoking can have when feeding your baby with breast milk:

  1. Nicotine, which comes during smoking in the blood of the mother, falls into the breast milk. And since this substance has a strong exciting effect, the child will become more excited: begin to sleep worse, eat badly, often and without reason to be capricious.
  2. The most serious consequences of smoking during lactation include a decrease in the amount of milk produced. This is due to the fact that frequent inhaling with cigarettes leads to a decrease in the production of the hormone prolactin. The quality of life-giving liquid for the baby also suffers: it becomes poorer nutrients, useful enzymes and protective antibodies.
  3. During passive smoking, when a child receives nicotine through milk, he may have problems with the nervous and cardiovascular (arrhythmia, tachycardia) systems. The lag in growth and the delay in the development of the baby will also become quite understandable. Such children often begin later to crawl, walk, talk, because oxygen starvation when poisoning with poisonous substances from a cigarette is a long-established fact.
  4. To stop you from smoking during breastfeeding should have such consequences as an increased risk of sudden death syndrome in infants, as well as allergies and lung diseases (croup, bronchitis, etc.). In addition, chances are that chicken will get used to getting nicotine through milk even in microdoses and at a young age will also become a smoker.