[cupcakes]

Hmm. I don't know that I'm convinced smoking while your pregnant is a good thing anymore than I would put any other kind of toxin knowingly in my body during that time. the baby is in a very delicate developmental stage during this time. I wouldn't be concerned about asthma, but hubby has a neice whose first children she smoked throughout the pregnancy and both are ADHD(and yes, these kids are, no doubt at all there are neuro problems with them) and then her third child she did not smoke and that child is perfectly healthy with no developmental issues.
There is no guarantee to anything of course, but why up the odds of developmental problems in a child. 9 months is such a short amount of time to forgo something pleasurable in the interest of a baby.

[Gabz]

I understand what you are saying, but I think it should be up to the individual and her doctor.

All my OB said to me about smoking was to try and cut it back a bit and in fact just minutes after my daughter was born she told me that if I felt like having a cigarette anytime during the evening to call a nurse for a wheelchair to go outside to have one. I never even thought about taking her up on the idea........all I wanted was a real beer, I was so sick and tired of the non-alcoholic stuff I had been drinking for 9 months. That and a real cup of coffee, not the decaf junk I'd been drinking!!!!

[netmilsmom]

CC, honestly I do not advocate pregnant women smoke. However, the story was more that the mom tried to put the guilt trip on her daughter when it was not warranted.

My thing in life is coffee and Diet Coke. When I first went to see my OB at six weeks, I told her that I had tried to go cold turkey without my fixes but was such a crab I had to go back. She said, "Don't try to give up anything cold turkey, your body is going through enough. Cut back as much as you can."
Well I was shocked (but happy). I asked her if she told the same to smokers and she said yes. Many smokers actually go into respiratory arrest when they quit cold turkey. She said that because she did not chastise, many of her moms-to-be are non-smokers when they finish the pregnancy because they slowly cut back over nine months. And she is a non-smoker!!