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The number of web sites and articles that advise smoking mothers that the benefits of breastfeeding outweigh the risks posed by smoking is shocking. Most ignore the baby as a person who is subject to all other recent studies relating to nicotine addiction, nicotine's harms, smoking's other risks, including the risks posed by second-hand smoke. For example, if a mother abstained from smoking while pregnant, how long will it take to hook her new baby on nicotine if she returns to smoking while breastfeeding?
A new study just released presents strong evidence that it may only take a few cigarettes a day for a few weeks to addict a full grown teenager. What evidence do we have to suggest that the outcome is any different for a small baby? Included in the risks below are risks identified in other recent studies with at least one link to articles discussing each risk. Review each and decide for yourself whether or not they'd have application to a newborn.
For example, if nicotine is believed to cause chronic depression, brain damage and learning impairment in new teen smokers, what evidence is there to suggest that feeding your baby nicotine via your milk wouldn't do the same? Although extremely difficult to develop any medical study to measure depression or intelligence in newborns, does that mean we should ignore such studies when it comes to breastfeeding?
Women who smoke while breastfeeding may
subject their baby to the risk of ...
Addiction - 05/02
Atherosclerosis - 07/01
Middle ear infections - 02/02
Less breast milk - 12/91 12/92
Destruction of brain cells - 05/02
Colic or excessive crying - 03/89
Circulatory damage - 07/01 07/01
Chronic Depression - 02/04 10/00
Not being able to initiate breast feeding - 07/02
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) - 01/05 09/02 11/97 Decrease in your child's ability to learn or memorize - 05/02
Not wanting to initiate breast feeding due to smoking - 1999
Growth of brain neurons to process nicotine - 05/02 03/02 11/95
A reduction in the breast's ability to pass key nutrients to the infant - 07/04
Specific Breastfeeding Risk Reduction Findings
Respiratory illness reduced 70% while breastfeeding - 09/90
Allergy reaction risk reduced by breastfeeding - 05/96