[Miss Blunted]

These forums are for discussion....hopefully respectful ones. What is up with people screaming and swearing over other people's opinions? For or against...people are just trying to help out by sharing personal stories or information they have read. Studies go both ways on this topic and all you can do is read as much as you can and form your own opinion. This was a peaceful discussion at first....what happened? Why are people doing this name calling and disrespectful badgering of other IC members? Calm down and contribute your ideas nicely....I'm sure they're very welcomed. People are here for advice sometimes....damn.

[Vorsprung]

studies have shown smoking during pregnancy (UK did study on morning sickness and it worked great) did no harm to the baby.

studies have shown smoking while breast feeding, do no harm to the baby. Actually a large study done with Jamaican (ya mon!) mothers showed the babies with mothers who smoked while breast feeding generally developed to have better disposition, coordination, and overall health.

my wife didn't smoke while pregnant (better safe than sorry) but she did moderately (once, twice a week) while breast feeding. both our children are off the charts great... SO FAR. LOL.

Let's put it this way, between a diet containing large amounts of high-fructose corn syrup (i.e. most american diets), smoking cigs, drinking alcohol or smoking cannabis... well.. I think we all know the answer. None is probably safest.. but if you had to pick one, cannabis hands down safest.

[Vorsprung]

Originally Posted by whiskeytango420

Either way ya cut it, no one is gonna convince me that mj is harmful,... calm me blind, Ill call you a sheep
good vibes

couldn't agree more. man evolved with cannabis for thousands of years. 70 years of bullshit propaganda does not make it unhealthy. as you stated, cannabinoid receptors in the brain are there for a reason.

some are here for the love, some are here for the money. some understand the natural gift, others abuse it.

[trouble]

Somking weed during pregnancy isn't going to cause the fetus to grow 3 heads. However, smoking anything during pregnancy deprives the fetus of much needed oxygen and can cause the baby to be born small in both weight & length.

And smaller babies run a much higher risk of other problems after birth, such as infections, severe jaundice, breathing problems, low blood suger, bleeding into the brain, trouble with vision, ect. ect.

I feel confident that all good OBGYN's would highly recommend to their patients not to smoke anything during pergnancy.



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[KeifCheif]

there will always be a risk of a unhealthy baby, so u can never pin a negative birth defect on canna. smoking weed wile preg is ok in my book.

[Pirate]

The elimination of as many toxins as possible will only help the infant.(and mother)

Pretty amazing that some on here are actually suggesting that a mother do drugs while pregnant and call it beneficial. WOW !!

No wonder the world is so screwed up.
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[JQP]

This is funny because my kids all all grown now, but my wife used to smoke a lot more weed than me. She cut down during pregnancies, like she wouldn't do as much daily as "normal." Kids are 25, 28 and 31, all great people, all doing well. My two younger ones smoke weed like I did when I was their age, the older one doesn't smoke at all now. Wife quit at least a decade ago, and I'm sure would suggest not to smoke anything while pregnant OR nursing. She is a strong believer in nursing too, nursed all our boys.

What I love about this woman is that she doesn't hassle me about doing weed, and in fact on a very tight budget lets me build a grow closet, and then with her advanced green thumb, helps me with my plants! What a woman eh?

JQ

[KeifCheif]

lucky man JQP.

[ThisBuds4You]

Sorry, but I would never ever smoke while pregnant. When I get pregnant (soon, very soon), I will be SOBER for a LONG TIME! It will def suck, but I want the BEST for my kid. My choice :-)
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TB4U

[Tony Danza]

It's funny how everywhere else on this site Marijuana is a harmless/beneficial personal choice. But If you are pregnant, it's everybody's job to tell you what to do, and you are a selfish idiot if you don't comply.

Without MJ, my daughter would have been denied the nutrition she needed as a fetus. My wife's morning sickness lasted all day, for all nine months, marijuana was the only thing that helped her keep food down. It's debatable whether weed can harm the fetus, it is not debatable that starvation of the mother harms the fetus (and the mother...don't forget her.) Don't try to tell my wife that my baby had a small head. And of course, she is perfectly healthy and performing well in her development. Just like my wife did, who's mom also smoked weed while pregnant. Anybody who lives in a twentieth century city or farm community threw purity out the window a long time ago anyway.

And we all need to take a step back with our pregnancy studies. They are all flawed, no matter which side they support. Never in history has someone conducted a pregnancy study with a control. Since you can't force pregnant women to/not to smoke pot, you can only study self-selected groups. Pot smokers have a different demographic than non-pot smokers so results will always differ between groups regardless if the marijuana is causing it, who knows, maybe the small heads were from all the organic food. I'm kidding, but you get my point.

I think the idea of a necessary purity of the expectant mother is demeaning, as if she should be happy to endure any level misery or discomfort to preserve the purity of the womb. Too much in our society is the pregnant women treated only as vessel for the new life and the human being that she is. It was as if my wife had a sign on her back that read "You need to tell me what to do, I can't do it for myself."

And I'm pretty positive that it was the weed that made my little girl the cutest one ever. So there!