Quit Smoking during Pregnancy Helps to have an ‘Easy-going Child’

Smoking during pregnancy causes harmful risks to both mother and child. The link between smoking during pregnancy and behavioral problems in children is not clearly explained by studies. Recently a new British study showed a link between these two factors and reports that women who give up smoking during pregnancy are more likely to have an easy going child.

The study analyzed data of 18,000 UK babies born between 2000 and 2002.The mothers of these babies were categorized as the following:

Non-smokers during pregnancy

Quitters during pregnancy

Light smokers during pregnancy

Heavy smokers during pregnancy

The researchers studied the following temperaments of the babies when they were 9 months old:

Receptivity to new things

Positive mood

Regular sleep

Eating patterns

Results of the Study:

The researchers found that expecting mothers who gave up smoking had the easiest going babies as compared to non-smokers and smokers.

Infants, whose mothers gave up smoking, had the lowest chances of unpredictable behaviors and becoming distressed when faced new things or situations.

Women who smoked heavily during pregnancy had the most difficult babies regarding to behavioral patterns and the study found that the infants are more likely to achieve the lowest scores for positive mood.

The above study shows that smoking during pregnancy not only harms your baby’s physically health rather it can easily harm your child’s mental development. So it is important that you quit smoking completely to have a healthy life, healthy family and healthy kids!!!

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