How Smoking While Pregnant Harms Your Unborn Baby (2 pics)
Researchers in the UK recently did a study on how smoking while pregnant can effect an unborn baby. Their research showed that smoking while pregnant not only has negative effects on egg quality but also increases the chances of premature birth. They are hoping that these pictures will help to encourage mothers who smoke while pregnant to quit.
Foetuses whose mothers smoked (left) continued to show significantly higher rates of mouth movement and self-touching than those carried by non-smokers (right)
Fetus of a mother who smoked up to 14 cigarettes a day (left) and fetus of a non-smoking mother (right)
