“I am pregnant with my second baby, is it safe for me to smoke?”

A baby in the womb gets everything from its mother. Nutrients and oxygen come via the placenta and umbilical cord. Smoking not only exposes the fetus to toxins in tobacco smoke, but it also damages placental function.
When a person smokes, some of the oxygen in their blood is replaced by carbon monoxide. If a pregnant woman smokes, her blood and therefore her child’s blood will contain less oxygen than normal. This can cause the fetal heart rate to rise as baby struggles to get enough oxygen.
The particles in tobacco smoke contain different toxic substances that change the blood’s ability to work in a healthy and normal manner. This can affect the placenta that feeds the baby.
Babies born to mothers who smoke:
• Are more likely to be born prematurely and with a low birth weight (below 2.5kg or 5lb 8oz).
• Have a birth weight on average 200g (7oz) less than those born to non-smokers. This effect increases proportionally - the more the mother smokes, the less the child weighs.
• Have organs that are smaller on average than babies born to non-smokers.
• Have poorer lung function.
• Are ill more frequently. Babies born to women who smoked 15 cigarettes or more a day during pregnancy are taken into hospital twice as often during the first eight months of life.
• get painful diseases such as inflammation of the middle ear and asthmatic bronchitis more frequently in early childhood.
• Are more likely to become smokers themselves in later years.
In addition, pregnant women who smoke increase their risk of early miscarriage.

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“I think my vaginal appearance is abnormal, any solution?”

June 28th, 2011 // faq
Many people have doubts about their body. The female genitals, like other parts of the body vary from person to person. Vaginas are all different shapes and sizes, so there is no one set appearance because everybody is different. As long as you do not have any physical problems with your vagina, you should not consider it abnormal.

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