Drugs During Pregnancy

By: Kylie Cox

How the Baby Receives Nutrients

Everything you ingest crosses the placenta through the umbilical cord into the baby's bloodstream www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ec7Rg09-pM

•15% of recognized pregnancies end in miscarriages• Lifestyles like drinking and smoking is 3 of 4 factors that

contribute to miscarriages• It is a factor that is 100% avoidable• If you smoke, drink, or ingest caffeine so does your

baby.•Miscarriages is one of many side effects that can

happen if you use while pregnant

A statement made by the Center for Disease Control (CDC)

“We know little about the effects of taking most medications during pregnancy. This is because pregnant women are often not included in studies to determine

safety of new medications before they come on the market. Less than 10% of medications approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1980 have enough

information to determine their risk for birth defects.”

How smoke reaches the Fetus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-1Gm43tlHY

DO NOT SMOKE WHILE PREGNANTNicotine increases the risk for miscarriages It lowers the oxygen available for you babyIt increases your baby’s hear rate It increase the risk of premature birth and/ or low birth weightIt increases the risk for respiratory problemsIt increases the risk of birth defects and SIDS

Can you have an occasional drink while pregnant?“A drink during pregnancy is very unlikely to keep your child out of an Ivy League school, but regular

drinking is bad, and we don’t know where the border is between them. And that border may be

different for different women, so why take the risk?”

What are the risk?• Stillbirths•Miscarriages • Fetal Alcohol Syndrome• Abnormal Facial Features• Smaller Head Size• Shorter than average

height• Low body weight• Poor learning

• Speech and language delays• Intellectual disabilities• Low IQ• Sleeping problems• Vision or hearing problems• Heart Defects• Kidney Problems

THERE IS NO CURE!!

DO NOT USE HEROIN WHILE PREGNANT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGEDaIP6kw4

Theresa Mischeski (a google user) 1 month ago“when I had my now 19 year old son there was a baby on the ward addicted to heroin, This baby just screamed 24/7 my son was in icu (prem) so

after being booted out of there I would take turns with the nurse's walking this poor baby around and

around, there was nothing we could do to settle the poor thing, I will never forget the inhuman cries from that baby and I wanted to punch the

mothers light's out, so dam selfish”

• Placenta Abruption• Premature birth• Low birth weight• Stillbirths• SIDS• Neonatal Abstinence

Syndrome (NAS)• Body shakes• Seizures• Tremors

• Tight muscle joints• Poor feeding• Fever• Sweating‘• Blotchy skin• Trouble sleeping and

yawning a lot• Diarrhea or throwing up• Stuffy nose and sneezing

Cocaine Risk Premature BirthLow birth weightRespiratory distressBowel infractionsCerebral InfractionsReduced Head CircumfrenceIncreased risk of Seizures

Is Caffeine Ok while pregnant?• Iron deficiency anemic•Low Birth Weight•Baby doesn’t sleep as much when born

Suggestions for drinking caffeine while pregnantDo not consume with mealsLimit to two cups a day

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor •After a study was published in 2006 about a link between SSRIs and birth defects the FDA put out a public advisory warning•After three more studies where published that found no link, they recanted that warning. •Although the risks are low, there are risk

Common Risk from My Researched Substances

Low birth weightPremature Labor

Birth DefectsBrain development

DON’TDO DRUGS

WHILE PREGNANT

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Issues.” Merck Manuals Concumer Version. 11 Oct. 2013 Web. 2 Nov. 2015.• “Effects of Smoking While Pregnant: Dangers to Your Baby.” WebMD. WebMD, 30 May 2013. Web. 2

Nov, 2015.• Salisbury, Amy, Kathryn Ponder, James Padbury, and Barry Lester. “Fetal Effects of Psychoactive Drugs.”

Clinics in Perinatology. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 5 Sept. 2009 Web. 3 Nov, 2015.• Sampson, Paul D. “Risk Factors for Adverse Life Outcomes in Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol

Effects.” ResearchGate, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Inc. 4 Aug, 2004 Web. 4 Nov, 2015.• “Miscarriages Causes, Symptoms, Rates, and More.” WebMD. WebMD, 20 July 2014. Web. 4 Nov, 2015. • Keller, RW Jr, and A. Snyder-Keller. National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S National Library

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