Quitting smoking during the 1[st] trimester of pregnancy still puts the baby at risk
Although quitting smoking during the 1[st] trimester of pregnancy reduces the risk of low birth weight, it isn’t enough to protect the unborn child from being born shorter and with smaller brain size, a new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows. The study looked at 1.4 million mother-child pairs in Finland, analysing the effect of maternal smoking on newborns’ body size and body proportions when the mother had smoked only during the 1[st] trimester as opposed to continued smoking. The findings were published in BMJ Open yesterday.
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk