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Topic: current/former smokers who have had children
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Darkness Falls
♀ 27879
Member # 27879 |  Posted: 10:31 PM, January 24th (Friday), 2014 |     |
How long before you started trying to conceive did you quit?
Thanks in advance.  [This message edited by heartbroken0903 at 10:31 PM, January 24th (Friday)]
WS, 5-month EA/PA '09-'10
Divorced and remarried to XBH
First child (daughter) born February 2016
Posts: 3500 | Registered: Mar 2010 | From: Central Florida |
Clarrissa
♀ 21886
Member # 21886 |  Posted: 7:22 AM, January 25th (Saturday), 2014 | |
Current, long time smoker here. I have four kids and didn't quit before getting pregnant with any of them. At best (worst?) I reduced my smoking after conception, mostly because of the nausea of the first trimester. I know I should quit but it's extremely difficult to break a 37 year habit plus (quite honestly) I really don't want to quit.
BH Cee64D - 50
FWW (me) - 51
All affairs are variations on a theme. No one has 'Beethoven's 5th' to everyone else's 'Chopsticks'.
Posts: 6149 | Registered: Dec 2008 | From: A better place |
LovesLaboursLost
♀ 37272
Member # 37272 | | Posted: 8:31 AM, January 25th (Saturday), 2014 | |
I quit right before conceiving both times, for reasons unrelated to pregnancy. First trimester nausea and then subsequent months of not smoking helped me break the habit. Fell off the wagon for a time when DS was about 18 months old, then got pregnant with DD. Haven't had one in almost three years. GL!
I'm a work in progress.
Posts: 116 | Registered: Oct 2012 |
musiclovingmom
♀ 38207
Member # 38207 | | Posted: 8:36 AM, January 25th (Saturday), 2014 | |
I smoked for years, but always off and on. Never more than 2 packs a week. Before my first child, I had quit for several years. I was smoking when I found out about my second pregnancy and quit immediately. My third pregnancy came when my second child was only 9 months old and I hadn't started smoking again.
Posts: 1539 | Registered: Jan 2013 |
prowoman
♀ 40761
Member # 40761 | | Posted: 9:47 AM, January 25th (Saturday), 2014 | |
I smoke very occasionally, but have smoked since my teens. I didn't quit and try to conceive (first pregnancy was a little surprising, second was a total shock) but just really cut back. My doc told me not to go cold turkey with my 2nd as he thought it would be better to wean down and not shock my body. I'm usually about a pack a week (this very little in my mind) but have fluctuated to more when stressed or whatever.
Posts: 181 | Registered: Sep 2013 |
Gottagetthrough
27325
Member # 27325 | | Posted: 12:14 PM, January 25th (Saturday), 2014 | |
I became pregnant with #1 unexpectedly... Gave up smoking that day.
Had smoked a pack to a pack and a half a day before I knew.
Posts: 2044 | Registered: Jan 2010 |
Want2help
♀ 20547
Member # 20547 | | Posted: 2:21 PM, January 26th (Sunday), 2014 | |
I quit a couple of months before TTC. I had quit before, for years, then resumed due to circumstances better suited for discussion in the General forum.
I've never started again. Your children are worth it.
FBS/WS- me.
BS/FWS- him.
DDay 6/07 (immediately separated)
RDay 8/07
His OC born 2008/Adopted 2014
My Affair: 2015
Status: trying to pick up the pieces.
Posts: 2579 | Registered: Aug 2008 | From: PNW |
Darkness Falls
♀ 27879
Member # 27879 | | Posted: 7:42 PM, January 27th (Monday), 2014 | |
Thank you for all the replies.
So for those who conceived while smoking, no ill effects on the kiddos?
I'm not pregnant, btw, but I do smoke and we're thinking of trying to conceive late this year.
WS, 5-month EA/PA '09-'10
Divorced and remarried to XBH
First child (daughter) born February 2016
Posts: 3500 | Registered: Mar 2010 | From: Central Florida |
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