The fetus of a smoking mother fares still worse for in the fetal blood the concentration of hemoglobin with carbon monoxide exceeds the mother's by 10-15 per cent.
Oxygen, so vital to the life of the developing child, 50 is therefore much lower than even the mother's.
All the organs suffer from the lack of oxygen, but the fetal brain and heart are especially vulnerable to the lack of oxygen.
This should give the mother-to-be cause for reflection as she starts to light up.
She is actually depriving her unborn child of the very essence of life itself - oxygen.
In a recent research by means of sophisticated X-ray techniques researchers have shown that all chest movement momentarily ceased in the fetus when the mother smoked only one cigarette.
There is no safe level of smoking for anyone, but it is even more disastrous to the mother and her unborn child.
The cancer causing compound (Benzo(a)pyrine) is easily transported from the mother's blood stream through the placenta in the womb, to the blood nourishing the fetus.
The amount is directly related with the amount of cigarettes smoked by the mother.
It is a very remarkable and complex relationship that exists between the chemical substances found in the placenta and the mother's blood.
This relationship permits proper transport of nutrients and vital substances to the growing fetus.
The chemicals from smoking tobacco directly affect this transport system between mother and child.
If you want to put it another way the closeness of the tie between mother and baby is disrupted by cigarette smoking.
Even more startling, if animal research is any guide, is the possibility that the mother may be setting the stage for her child to develop later cancer of the lung, liver, or breast.
More laboratory experiments are being done on this problem.
Of the mothers I ask, 'What pleasure from smoking is worth such a high risk?'
Oxygen, so vital to the life of the developing child, 50 is therefore much lower than even the mother's.
All the organs suffer from the lack of oxygen, but the fetal brain and heart are especially vulnerable to the lack of oxygen.
This should give the mother-to-be cause for reflection as she starts to light up.
She is actually depriving her unborn child of the very essence of life itself - oxygen.
In a recent research by means of sophisticated X-ray techniques researchers have shown that all chest movement momentarily ceased in the fetus when the mother smoked only one cigarette.
There is no safe level of smoking for anyone, but it is even more disastrous to the mother and her unborn child.
The cancer causing compound (Benzo(a)pyrine) is easily transported from the mother's blood stream through the placenta in the womb, to the blood nourishing the fetus.
The amount is directly related with the amount of cigarettes smoked by the mother.
It is a very remarkable and complex relationship that exists between the chemical substances found in the placenta and the mother's blood.
This relationship permits proper transport of nutrients and vital substances to the growing fetus.
The chemicals from smoking tobacco directly affect this transport system between mother and child.
If you want to put it another way the closeness of the tie between mother and baby is disrupted by cigarette smoking.
Even more startling, if animal research is any guide, is the possibility that the mother may be setting the stage for her child to develop later cancer of the lung, liver, or breast.
More laboratory experiments are being done on this problem.
Of the mothers I ask, 'What pleasure from smoking is worth such a high risk?'