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What diseases do babies end up having when their mother smokes, or do drugs during pregnancy?

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What diseases do babies end up having when their mother smokes, or do drugs during pregnancy?

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They can typically have any disorder – typically not a disease. The mother pass an infection off to the baby but can also transfer AIDS, HIV, and other life threatening diseases like that. But with a mother taking illegal drugs and smoking, the baby can be premature and low birth weight. Either one of those can cause serious problems. Mostly a mother who is taking illegal drugs along with smoking and alchol, the baby can be practically brain dead when born. I work with an individual who’s mother drank heavily thru her pregnancy causing the baby to have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. It’s something I truly have never seen before. The individual constantly flaps her hands, spits on the floor, shakes, rubs her shoulders on the walls when she walks, and if she hits something (that’s sticking out from the wall), she keeps moving as if she didn’t hit it. A few times she actually required several stitches since she hurt herself that badly. Imagine a drunk puppy, that’s pretty much what she was like.

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