The impact of smoking and drinking on childbirth

  To have a healthy baby is the wish of every parent, and it also requires the efforts of every parent. Most men have the phenomenon of smoking and drinking alcohol, so some couples who want to have children want to know how smoking and drinking affect their children? Everyone, come and learn about me.

  

The impact of smoking and drinking on childbirth1

  Excessive smoking and drinking by both or one spouse can be extremely harmful to the fetus. Pregnant women who smoke excessively, either directly or indirectly, can cause peripheral blood vessels to constrict, resulting in insufficient supply and exchange of oxygen, leading to fetal hypoxia, miscarriage, premature birth, and fetal death in the uterus; Due to intrauterine hypoxia, fetal growth retardation and relative intellectual disability occur; In early pregnancy, it can also cause fetal malformations and underdevelopment, such as cardiovascular malformations, cleft palate, and anencephaly.

  Pregnant women drinking alcohol can cause various physiological defects in the fetus, mainly manifested as miscarriage, premature birth, and stillbirth. Surviving fetuses are also prone to various diseases, resulting in low intelligence and underdeveloped infants. Women who consume a large amount of alcohol are prone to giving birth to children with certain characteristics during pregnancy, such as small eyes, short eye hairs, downward corner of the eye, drooping eyelids, cracked inner canthus, and in severe cases, cataracts and abnormal retinal pigment; Commonly seen are small joint deformities and heart deformities; Girls have underdeveloped labia majora, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to quit drinking for one month before pregnancy in order to conceive.

  In order to have a healthy and intelligent baby, if one of the couple smokes and drinks, it is necessary to quit smoking and drinking in a timely manner in order to have a baby, and only after one month of quitting smoking and drinking can one prepare to have a baby. The harm of smoking and drinking to the next generation cannot be ignored, and the impact is irreversible. It must be taken seriously by all expectant parents.

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