New York – High definition scans of unborn babies of smoking mothers show the babies covering their faces and heads with their arms, and having a higher rate of mouth and facial movements than babies of non-smoking mothers.
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Researchers at Lancaster and Durham Universities in England say the scans show just how harmful smoking is during pregnancy, reports NY Daily News (http://nydn.us/1Ow9oog).
In the study published in the journal Acta Paediatrica, 20 fetuses between 24 and 36 weeks in utero were studied via 4-D ultrasound scans. Four of the babies were from smoking mothers who smoked an average of 14 cigarettes per day; the other babies belonged to non-smoking mothers.
Research shows that higher mouth and facial movements of the fetus correlates to a slower developed central nervous system.
All of the babies were born healthy.
Previous studies have found that smoking during pregnancy causes tissue damage in unborn babies, particularly lung and brain tissue damage, delay in speech processing abilities, premature births and miscarriages.
Maybe because they know they’ll be about a million in debt on day one.
Both our unborn babies covered their heads with their hands in these scans – and my wife never smoked a single cigarette in her whole life.
MILLIONS of doctors warn the world of the dangers of smoking. But many Orthodox smokers say, “Those doctors don’t know what they’re talking about.”
Yet, if even one doctor says you’re allowed to eat on Yom Kippur, those same people will say, “I must follow the doctor’s instructions.”
Yet our President is a smoker.