| 1. SMOKING.. you may have heard it all before but | | | | properly,keeping healthy, keeping fit but not to the |
| your baby can be born of a low birth weight called | | | | extreem.Doing light excercise throughout your |
| small for dates causing problems with the | | | | pregnancy can help your body prepare for what it is |
| placenta having a diminished capacity to transport | | | | going to do at the time or birth LABOUR. Its called |
| oxygen and nutrients to the unborn baby. asthma | | | | labour because it is hard work so keeping your body |
| problems may develop with your baby later on.ps | | | | healthy will help you prepare for the long tiring hours |
| smoking causes cancer too for you. | | | | of contractions and pushing a baby out into the big |
| 2.Not seeking medical advice from midwives doctors | | | | wide world. |
| specialists etc, avoiding going to checkups, avoiding | | | | 4.Taking Drugs, Drinking Excessive Alcohol amounts, |
| hospital appointments until birth.....Screening tests, | | | | Substance abuse....Being responsible.You will be |
| scans are used not only to detemine your due date | | | | bringing a new life into the world so the later speaks |
| but keeps an eye on baby's growth and predicting a | | | | for its self. Your baby will rely on you to take of it, |
| multiple pregnancy,abnormalitities with baby which | | | | to feed it to keep it clean ,to love it to keep it from |
| may need surgery later on.Placenta function. your | | | | catching any harm. If you are so spaced out, that is |
| health and any problems detected as soon as | | | | showing you should not be left in charge of a baby |
| possible. Some mums develop pre eclampsia late on in | | | | because your baby could be in left in harms |
| pregnancy which can be fatal for both you and your | | | | way,think of this and seek practical help from |
| baby if left undetected early.Close observation is | | | | another adult you can trust to help to come off |
| needed should you develop high blood pressure which | | | | them well in advance before your baby is born.Some |
| may result i n you staying in hopsital for the | | | | Social workers will take your baby from you at birth |
| remainder of your pregnancy so it is very importnat | | | | if your baby is born addicted to drugs. Drugs can |
| you seek medical advice as soon as you suspect you | | | | cause your baby to be addicted at birth because |
| may be pregnant. | | | | it passes through the placenta direct to your baby. |
| 3.Not Looking after yourself.....Not eating | | | | |