Question

Okay so, when a baby is born and the mother has been taking drugs (ex, cocaine), where would you find the drugs? I think is embryo....but I cant quite remember...

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Answer 1

Did you know that using alcohol, cigarettes, and illegal drugs during pregnancy can harm the mother and her baby? Everything a pregnant woman eats, drinks, or takes affects the baby. Using drugs can hurt the baby’s growth or even cause the baby to get sick.

Answer 2

Cigarettes: Pregnant women who smoke expose their babies to nicotine and the dangerous chemicals in cigarettes. If the mother smokes, her baby may:

Be born early (a preemie)
Develop an addiction to nicotine
Have breathing and behavioral problems
Die before it is born or in the first year of life
Secondhand smoke can also be harmful to a baby. The baby is more likely to develop problems breathing, ear infections, and cavities.

Answer 3

Alcohol: Drinking alcohol while pregnant can cause babies to be born with illnesses. These children may:

Have problems seeing and hearing
Be born too small
Struggle with eating and sleeping
Have problems in school with learning and paying attention
Illegal drugs: Pregnant women who use illegal drugs like marijuana, cocaine, Ecstasy, meth, or heroin can cause lifelong harm to their babies. Drug use can cause babies to:

Be born early
Grow slowly
Have withdrawal symptoms, including fever, vomiting, poor sleep, and shaking
Have heart problems or a stroke
Suffer lifelong disabilities

Answer 4

but my issue isnt what the affects are, its were the drugs are found when the baby is born. like...the fetus or the embryo or the umbilical cord or what?

Answer 5

As an expectant mother, you want your baby to be healthy. You can help by remembering that much of what you eat, drink, and breathe is passed along to your growing baby. Some things are good for your baby. Other things, like alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and some medicines, can be harmful.

A baby receives food and oxygen through the placenta, which is attached to the baby’s umbilical cord. The placenta can’t tell the difference between what is good for your baby and what is harmful. That’s why you must make good choices.

Here is some information to help you understand how your health and habits can affect your unborn child.

Answer 6

The Surgeon General’s warning: “Smoking by pregnant women may result in fetal injury, premature birth, and low birth weight,” now appears on cigarette packs for good reason. Pregnant smokers have a higher chance of miscarriage and stillbirth. Babies of smoking mothers have a higher chance of being born early and too small. Low-birth-weight babies (less than 5 ½ pounds) can suffer serious health problems throughout their lives.

Tobacco smoke contains nicotine, arsenic, various tar products, and carbon monoxide. All of these are damaging to the body, and all of them can reach the baby through the placenta. For example, nicotine causes problems with the flow of blood through the blood vessels. Smoking during pregnancy may limit blood flow through the placenta and thus slow the baby’s growth.

Some pregnant women think that their babies are safe from these dangers because they do not inhale when they smoke. But tobacco smoke is absorbed through the mucous membranes of the mother’s mouth and throat. Although it may be less dangerous than inhaling, the body still absorbs harmful elements, and so does the baby.

Even non-smoking mothers and their babies are at risk when breathing smoke-filled air around them (second-hand smoke). Research also shows that babies exposed to smoke are twice as likely to die from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Smoking is a proven health hazard. Smokers decide to risk their health. Unborn babies don’t have the choice. Please make the right choice for your baby. Don’t smoke.

Answer 7

I'm trying to think about the answer to your question...are there any options you can choose from?

Answer 8

Most/some babies suffer from withdrawal symptoms after birth because they are no longer getting the drug (cocaine, etc.)...

Low birth weight, growth retardation in utero, and small-sized heads at birth are all potential consequences of cocaine use during pregnancy.

Immediately after birth, some cocaine-exposed infants are often in great distress. Jittery and suffering tremors, the infants are irritable and sensitive to the mildest environmental stimulation. Their muscles are unusually stiff, and they may show a prolonged persistence of early reflexes. Often, they cry a great deal. They do not fall asleep readily, but once asleep are easily awakened. The distress of these newborns is obvious, but they are unable to calm themselves. Sometimes cocaine-exposed infants display the opposite characteristics: they sleep much of the time and appear to shut down as if to avoid environmental stimulation.

Source:
https://www.princeton.edu/futureofchildren/publications/journals/article/index.xml?journalid=69&articleid=499&sectionid=3394

Hope it helps!

Answer 9

thanks :)

Answer 10

nobody got a medal

Answer 11

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Answer 12

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