I unfortunatly have failed to quit smoking during my pregnancy. I would like to breast feed her. But do not?

yep breast is best

I did the same tried real hard to quit got down to bout 5 a day but stuck there, still trying to stop its hard though

good luck

the smoking was not safe for you and for your new born baby .plz try to stop smoking ti read some articles on pregnant women visit this link.

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You should stop smoking. Breast feeding is good, but babies who live with smokers are more at risk for developing sudden infant death syndrome!! You really need to just quit smoking. I smoked for 7 years.. a pack a day, and its now been 8 years since I had a cigarette. You just need to make up your mind and decide on what is more important. Your nicotine fix, or your baby's health?? Babies that live with parents who smoke are more prone to develop asthma, and other respiratory, also ear and hearing problems. Now that you have a baby, you need to make the right decisions so that your child has a healthy environment to live in. You will smell so much better to your baby as well. And he or she will be less likely to smoke when they grow up.

When my 1st son was born, he was in hospital for the 1st 8 days of being born. Anyway being that I was discharged from hospital (and my son was still in there), I had to express my milk and bring it in to the hospital to feed him. The Carer in Special Care Unit said to me "Please do not have a smoke at least half before feeding him" (that's when I was at the hospital actually Breastfeeding him), so I assumed this was the same rule as to when I expressed my milk. I hope I have helped with your answer and I hope you have a smooth sailing labour....all the best with trying to give up, as I did for the 1st 6 months and then started smoking in the last 3 months cause I finished working and got bored and stupid me took up smoking again (my son will be 4 in April and had another baby since and still didn't stop smoking).

I don't really know much about breastfeeding because I haven't gotten that far along yet but I am going to tell you that you should have quit smoking. And you need to quit now. When I got pregnant I was doing drugs, I was a hard pill popper. Like 6-8 oxycodones a day, a smoked weed like there was no tomorrow and I was close to a pack a day. Before I got pregnant the past 6 months had been nothing but hell for me... so all that was my way of coping... and then I found out I was pregnant. I dropped it all cold turkey. Yeah, I had withdrawals, and it hurt, I had major headaches, I was shaking... it was terrible. But I knew that I had to stop all that for my baby. It's not been 3 months since I found out I was pregnant. And I never plan on doing any of that crazy stuff ever again.

Experts agree that breastfeeding is best for the baby if possible, but smoking does pose risks that may mean that bottle feeding is best in this situation. You have to be very disciplined to keep your baby safe. If you want to breast feed, and you aren't going to quit, then EVERY time you smoke you need to smoke outside away from the baby and you will have to change your clothes every time you are finished because the smoke clings to clothing. Maybe you could keep an over-coat next to the door that you only wear when you are smoking to cover your clean clothes from the smoke. Smokers don't recognize the smell because they are so used to it. "Heavy smoking can reduce a mother's milk supply and on rare occasions has caused symptoms in the breastfeeding baby such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea." Smoking and breast feeding has also been shown to cause colic in newborns. Don't forget all the breathing problems from inhaling the smoke.