YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO DAMAGE TWO PEOPLES LIFE

It is bad enough to be a smoker. It is true that loads of people are addicted to it but the fact remains that the damages it causes to the human body is beyond our imagination. Now, for a pregnant woman who smokes, she is not just damaging herself alone but the life of her baby(ies).

We cannot create life even for ourselves so why do we think we have the right to damage another’s life? Well, I guess that for a majority of people, it is done in ignorance. Yes, it is true that ignorance has robbed a lot of us of our future but now that you know, following this study, no more excuses.

Read with me and be transformed and also share with anyone you know who smokes. We can be walking against purpose when we do what is wrong, I say this because for some of us, as women, our purpose of being created is to give birth to the next prime minister of our country and to nurture the child to grow into a responsible person; this was exactly what Mary the mother of Jesus was born to do and today, we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus because His mother played her role.

Now, if all you do as a mum is to keep smoking, by this research result, you are hindering the normal development of your baby and thereby holding back his/her future and that of a whole generation. Are you happy to continue in that way?

There is help available for you today; it is called the power of choice and decision making. Make up your mind that for the sake of the next generation, you will give up smoking and see what your baby will become.

May you be blessed as you read, make a comment and then take an action.

 

Know someone who smokes during pregnancy? Show them this

Richard Hartley-Parkinson for Metro.co.ukMonday 23 Mar 2015 10:36 am

A non-smoker’s baby (Picture: PA)

The images above are what a healthy unborn baby looks like in the womb.

The images below are what an unborn baby whose mother smokes looks like in the womb.

What’s the difference?

Well a study of women found that babies of those who smoke actually move their mouths and touch themselves significantly more than those carried by non-smokers.

The study only involved 20 mothers, four of whom smoked an average of 14 cigarettes a day, but researchers now hope to further expand the study.

Dr Nadja Reissland studied moving 4D scan images and recorded thousands of tiny movements in the womb.

Foetuses usually move their mouths and touch themselves less as they gain more control the closer they get to birth.

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The pilot study indicated that babies carried by smokers may have delayed development of the central nervous system.

The research, conducted by Durham and Lancaster University, is published in the journal Acta Paediatrica.

Dr Reissland, from Durham’s Psychology Department, said: ‘A larger study is needed to confirm these results and to investigate specific effects, including the interaction of maternal stress and smoking.’

She believed that videos of the difference in pre-birth development could help mothers give up smoking.

Co-author Professor Brian Francis, of Lancaster University, added: ‘Technology means we can now see what was previously hidden, revealing how smoking affects the development of the foetus in ways we did not realise.

‘This is yet further evidence of the negative effects of smoking in pregnancy.’