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Does Marijuana Addiction Affect The Baby During Pregnancy?

I have a friend in Texas who smoked marijuana until about 30 weeks into her pregnancy, for morning sickness and such, and now she s concerned she and her baby will be tested for thc at birth. What are the chances of being tested and failing said tests? She s fairly active, eats moderately healthy and has only gained about 10 pounds during her pregnancy. I ve heard stress is the worst for unborn babies and am trying to give her some relief.
Fri, 29 Jan 2016
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Hi Dear,

Welcome to HCM.

Understanding your concern. As per your query you have marijuana addiction and yes smoking marijuana during pregnancy could affect foetus in many ways and it could affect since first trimester till last trimester. It could result in low birth weight babies, miscarriage, abortion. It can cause growth problem in foetus as well. If after baby birth you will start having it again it will reach by milk and will stay in baby system and will start giving adverse effects. It will lower down immunity of your body as well as that of incoming foetus and susceptibility to certain infectious diseases like asthma increases. I would suggest you to stop it immediately. If it is giving you much addiction taper the dose and eventually stop.

Hope your concern has been resolved.

Get Well Soon.

Best Wishes,
Dr. Harry Maheshwari
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Does Marijuana Addiction Affect The Baby During Pregnancy?

Hi Dear, Welcome to HCM. Understanding your concern. As per your query you have marijuana addiction and yes smoking marijuana during pregnancy could affect foetus in many ways and it could affect since first trimester till last trimester. It could result in low birth weight babies, miscarriage, abortion. It can cause growth problem in foetus as well. If after baby birth you will start having it again it will reach by milk and will stay in baby system and will start giving adverse effects. It will lower down immunity of your body as well as that of incoming foetus and susceptibility to certain infectious diseases like asthma increases. I would suggest you to stop it immediately. If it is giving you much addiction taper the dose and eventually stop. Hope your concern has been resolved. Get Well Soon. Best Wishes, Dr. Harry Maheshwari