Cannabis use in pregnancy

[AnoneyMousey]

Hey all.

Just up for a healthy debate/discussion on this subject as I was talking about it with my friends a few weeks ago and wondered what the general opinion was.

Obviously going anon for this 😊

I smoked weed through my pregnancy (no tobacco) - I started due to severe morning sickness and not being able to keep food down, and had done a lot of research online before hand.

My son is now almost 4 and is very advanced. He's at the same developmental age as a 7/8 year old (as stated by 2 drs and a health visitor)

A close friend of mine smoked weed during her pregnancy and her daughter is top of her class, getting top marks in every subject and is just in general really intelligent.

From the research I've done online and other parents I've reached out to and spoken to about them smoking weed during their pregnancies and how intelligent and happy and healthy their children are now.

There have never been any recorded deaths from cannabis, or any side effects in newborns etc.

It's proven to have cancer killing agents and helps with so many other illnesses such as MS and depression.

Why is this still illegal?!

This is MN, all our children are very advanced, regardless of cannabis intake!

I assume your proposal means that Jamaicans and Indians from low-income families are super-selective and way ahead of their peers?
Hmm... not really any evidence of that, is there? The reason so many lower-income Indian families get into higher education is the quota system, not their grades!

Dr's will tell you to have a glass of wine during pregnancy or that if you smoke cigarettes when you get pregnant to not stop because of the withdrawal impact on mother and baby

You're barmy! Doctors do not tell you that at all. The withdrawal impact of nicotine is absolutely negligible. It might feel unpleasant while it's happening but in terms of physical effects it's barely more than zero. There is certainly no negative effect on the foetus of withdrawing from nicotine that is not balanced and massively outweighed by the benefits of no longer being exposed to nicotine.

Someone once told me their doctor told them not to quit smoking during pregnancy because the stress of giving up is more harmful than the actual smoking to the unborn baby. I didn't believe it then and I don't believe it now.

Dr's will tell you to have a glass of wine during pregnancy or that if you smoke cigarettes when you get pregnant to not stop because of the withdrawal impact on mother and baby

Bollocks do they, I was a 40 a day smoker I stopped.

Someone smoking cannabis everyday is a drug addict. There's no sugarcoating the fact, addiction isn't fun and it isn't "cool" it's a horrible way to live.

This is MN, all our children are very advanced, regardless of cannabis intake!

Actually mine's slightly below average, who needs to be developmentally advanced anyway, it doesn't guarantee success in life [she tells herself... I didn't want a child genius anyway 😂]

This is also the worst debate ever, you've only acknowledged the one post which agrees with you in the slightest.

For me pregnancy was a chance to stop smoking shit tons of weed each day and ditto with alcohol and frequent use of other drugs recreationally. It gave me hope to be a good person and I was clean during my pregnancy and for most of breastfeeding. It's an opportunity.

I think this is the study you are looking for.... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1957518

I smoked early on in pregnancy, before knowing that I was pregnant, I stopped when I found out & only smoked once again on my wedding day (I don't drink & I wanted to relax & let my hair down after a long & stressful day)

I read up a lot at the time as I was worried, no need, everything I read said no harm. I can't link now, as it was many years back, but might be worth your trying to find the articles if possible. There was a bigger study done into early school years, it was set up with the intention of showing cannabis to be harmful, but it proved the opposite, so it was buried.

Personally, my experience has been the same as your own

Just spotted your further post OP, sounds like you know of the study already. I read it some 12 years or so back, very interesting reading

Got to say, I do find these sort of threads weird, the replies are so often ott & image every person who ever owns up to taking a draw on a joint is a drug addict, yet drinking copious amounts of wine or gin is seemingly encouraged

I've only ever tried cannabis once when I was younger. I slept for about 16 hours straight after. I very much doubt that's a good idea in pregnancy/with a newborn.

The only thing I've ever seen that could be seen as a positive to smoking before/during pregnancy was a study that claimed that smokers are 90 ish% less likely to develop pre eclampsia that non smokers, but they didn't know why.

I used to use lots of drugs regularly.

I'm for the legalisation of drugs. Weed is legal where I live.

I had severe hg, was throwing up 30+ times a day and hospitalised 3 times.

I still wouldn't even consider smoking during pregnancy.

Eh yeah they do because my doctor literally said that to me

Did you manage to also come across the studies on the negative affects or just ones that support your argument.
Disgusting drug and should stay illegal, I used it when not pregnant for the first time ever and i got drug induced psychosis and ended up locked in a mental hospital so it’s not all rainbows and happy feelings away from my children and family , it’s as bad as any other drug and can be very dangerous.
I say don’t f* with your unborn child let them make the decision themselves if they wish to ingest any drugs 🤨

Christ, people will do anything to justify their substance abuse during pregnancy.

You didn't mix it with tobacco so it wouldn't have caused harm.

Zombie thread

My Mum smoked with only one of the 4 of her kids. She is by FAR the most successful and the smartest. (PhD, career etc.)

Thank you for this I hope your family is well