How long does THC stay in an unborn babies system?
Chemical substances like THC accumulate in the bowels during pregnancy. Meconium, the tarry black-green stool that is the first BM that the baby produces store THC when a mother has used regularly in pregnancy, and it starts accumulating around the 5th month. It doesn’t metabolize and go away. So if you smoked regularly after the 5th month, even if you quit at 28 weeks, your baby could still test positive for THC if they test the meconium, even if a urine sample is negative. They do not routinely test all newborns for drugs in the majority, if not all the states. There has to be some indication for testing, such as admitted or suspected use of the mother, the presence of unexplainable complications such as a short labor (less than 3 hours), placental abruption at delivery, or a newborn that exhibits unexpected conditions like low blood sugars and jitteryness, etc. Now, even if you admitted to your doctor your THC use (and you really should, so they can provide the best care for you and
