What girl does not dream of a motherhood. Baby, clutching with his tiny little hand, his mother's finger. However, is it possible to talk about a happy future for the baby, whose mother is using drugs?
When a woman takes drugs while being pregnant, a child in her womb also gets this drug. First, it increases the risk of preterm birth, the baby is born with a significant shortfall in weight, extremely high risk of mental abnormalities, birth defects, development of withdrawal symptoms.
There is a misconception that the so-called "soft drugs" do not cause severe harm to the body. Smoking marijuana for a pregnant woman is fraught with preterm birth, and problems with eyesight and nervous system of the child, these children are likely to have withdrawal symptoms - constant crying, shivering. The boys, later suffer from the problem of procreation.
Taking Ecstasy, methamphetamines and amphetamines during pregnancy, a future mom risks to give birth to a baby with congenital heart disease, a defect in the nasopharynx (cleft lip, cleft palate), baby girls often have overpronation. Usually, the children of such parents are born with a shortfall in weight and small head circumference. They also have withdrawal symptoms - fatigue, shortness of breath, trembling. Amphetamines cause poor circulation in the uterus and the lack of nutrients in the body, it leads to a halt in the physical and mental development of children.
The influence of heroin.
Most often, a child, whose mother used heroin during pregnancy, is born dead. If he still survives, his weight is disastrously low, with high probability, such children are born already seriously ill. More often the withdrawal symptoms develop. Temperature, shivering, cold, diarrhea and vomiting, prolonged crying, irritability, seizures, epilepsy — come along with the first months of baby's life. The syndrome of sudden death overtakes these children several times more likely than other children. However, the abrupt cessation of heroin use can also lead to the death of an unborn baby.
As for cocaine addiction, most of all - it's a miscarriage in the first months of pregnancy. If a child still, is born, often, he is born with underdeveloped brain, which is smaller than the norm. The "cocaine kids" have an impaired urinary system. This often causes the baby's stroke, which leads to brain damage as a result, heart attack or often death.
The mother who used cocaine during the pregnancy period will have a child with psychic violation, he would often cry, and be irritable. Or, contrary, would be in a complete isolation from the world.
The usage of LSD, PCP and other hallucinogenic substances increases the risk of miscarriage. Children are born with physical ailments, and with psychological and mental disorders.
Effect of solvents and adhesives
Toxicomania leads to the birth of a child with hydrocephalus. Children are often born with a very small head and small eyes.
