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[VIDEO] Remarkable Scans Show Smoking Effects On Unborn Babies

24-03-2015 | 10:41

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[VIDEO] Remarkable Scans Show Smoking Effects On Unborn Babies

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New ultrasound images clearly reveal how smoking during pregnancy harms an unborn baby's development.

The remarkable scans show how babies of mothers who smoke during pregnancy touch their mouths and faces much more than babies of non-smoking mothers.

“The scans reveal how smoking during pregnancy can delay the development of the baby's central nervous system,” according to experts.

Doctors have long urged women to abandon cigarettes while pregnancy since they heighten the risk of premature birth, respiratory problems and even cot death.

Dr Nadja Reissland, of Durham University, used 4-D ultrasound scan images, as part of the study, in order to record thousands of small movements in the womb.

Reissland monitored 20 pregnant women attending the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough, four of whom smoked an average of 14 cigarettes a day.

After having examined their scans at 24, 28, 32 and 36 weeks, she detected that foetuses whose mothers smoked continued to show significantly higher rates of mouth movement and self-touching than those carried by non-smokers.

“Foetuses usually move their mouths and touch themselves less as they gain more control the closer they get to birth,” she explained.

The study, which Reissland hopes to expand with a bigger sample, showed that babies carried by smoking mothers may have delayed development of the central nervous system.

Let’s hope that the shocking images could be used to encourage pregnant women to kick the smoking habit.

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