I have a SERIOUS question. My friend went to her anatomy scan today and her doctor said "She's in…

Probably. Smoking causes low birth weights

@jlf240, she smokes like a pack a day and I keep telling her to stop. She'll go a week without then continue the week after. Ugh

Yeah, that's gonna cause a lot of problems for her baby.

@micgennyy absolutely could be the reason

Yes. Women who smoke during pregnancy tend to have smaller babies. It's definitely not a good thing.

Yeah that could possibly be it, or a genetic factor. There's a video somewhere, I'm sure it'll be on YouTube, of an ultrasound being done as a mom is smoking and you watch the baby look like it's suffocating and making grossed out faces. Maybe you could send that to her.

Ive showed her that one commercial of the mom that smoked while she was pregnant and the baby was in a ventilator thing and the mom said "here's a tip for moms who smoke while pregnant, talk through the hole so the baby can hear you better". It breaks my heart. I just hope actually hearing it IS affecting her baby makes her have second thoughts about smoking while being pregnant @kimberlyyyy_the-preemie-mom,

I just posted on Facebook about how much I HATE that commercial today because I had a preemie and that shits painful. I didn't hurt my baby and it made me feel worse. Unfortunately people have this "it won't happen to me/my baby" mentality until it does. 😪

@kimberlyyyy_the-preemie-mom, that's exactly what the way she thinks. She got on this stupid mom group on Facebook and a few said they smoked and didn't affect their baby so she got that mentality.

How far along is she?

@kimberlyyyy_the-preemie-mom, 20 weeks! She said she'll be 21 on Sunday. She just got her anatomy scan done today

If she was further along I would offer a picture of my itty bitty when he was born. I didn't smoke or so anything, but he was born very prematurely && maybe if she saw a picture of a baby who came early she would realize how stupid she's being.