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What are the consequences of drinking/smoking while pregnant?

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Use these words and see if you can place them in the correct place on worksheet appendix 1PlacentaUmbilical cordAnusVaginaCervixAmniotic fluidUterus or womb

Anatomical structures of pregnancy

Can you point out when alcohol and tobacco begin to affect a women during pregnancy?When does alcohol and tobacco begin to affect the eyes?When would major physical abnormalities begin to occurWhat stages is the heart affectedDrugs effects on a developing baby are 20 times greater than the drug effects on an adult.

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Dangers of Smoking While PregnantLower birth weight. Smoking reduces the amount of blood that reaches your placenta starving your baby of the food it needs to grow.Smoking makes it harder to get pregnant in the first place by lowering your fertility.Once pregnant, smoking makes miscarriages more likely.After birth, babies born to smoking mothers cry more as they crave the nicotine you do in cigarette smoke.Babies born to smoking mothers are more likely to die unexplained (SIDS), and to suffer from asthma and ear infections when older.

Children of smoking parents are more likely to smoke too.

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Video

Don't smoke while pregnant: podcast

don't drink and deliver:podcast

Podcasts

Considering these risks, why do you think mothers smoke/drink while pregnant?Do you feel its worth the risk? Why or why not?What one message would you give to pregnant mothers or women who want to get pregnant about smoking/drinking while pregnant?

Class discussion questions

While in groups you will create a roadside “billboard”You will include at least one health consequence of using alcohol and tobacco during pregnancy.It will also include one picture

Group Work