To judge this woman?

[moralberyll]

Leaving the local maternity unit today and a heavily pregnant woman who is obviously a patient as she was wearing a dressing gown, slippers and pyjamas was standing right near the doorway smoking a cigarette, there is a big sign up saying 'no smoking on campus'. Aibu to judge her that she is not only putting her own baby at risk but she wants to put other people's baby's at risk from secondhand smoke as well? I would definitely have said something if i were leaving the unit with my newborn baby!

Everything in moderation is not bad! Smoking whilst pregnant if you cut down is not bad. However attacking a woman for doing so is pretty bad.

Smoking while pregnant is bad, full stop. It's better to cut down but it's still bad. I agree that attacking a woman for doing so is pretty bad. It's a poor decision but attacking anyone is pretty unhelpful.

Selfish cow putting her baby at risk and other people at risk due to her desperately needing a fag! No shame

The trouble with cutting down is that you tend to hoover each fag more - you inhale deeper and smoke it further down because you are gagging for nicotine. This means that all the health effects of smoking tend to be just as bad, even though you are smoking fewer fags. You can reduce the health risks by cutting down, if you supplement with NRT or an ecig, but cutting down on its own tends not to work.

Sometimes people don't want "help". Everything in moderation, whether smoking or anything else is fine.

I have never smoked and didn't touch a drop of alcohol during my pregnancy. That said, I chose not to breastfeed, never took pregnancy vitamins and even refused a whooping cough vaccine. No one's perfect.

Walking through a puff of smoke for 1 second will have no effect on you or your babies life. Judge away but no one GAF!

Id say just bugger off to be honest and leave us alone in our haze of smoke. I enjoy it. My mum enjoyed it, her mum enjoyed it, and I'm sure other generations before did. No one has had a small baby or one with breathing problems because of it.

Everything in moderation, whether smoking or anything else is fine.

Just typing that over and over again doesn't make it true.

Oh and none of us were breastfeaders either. We didn't want to. Nothing detrimental happened.

I would be judgemental too, but probably for only about a minute.

silver you might not have had a small baby but look at the evidence. Smoking causes babies to be born at lower birthweights.

So does lots of things. Apparently vegans and veggies have low birth weight babies now too. Things go in fashions i tend to think.

Apparently vegans and veggies have low birth weight babies now too.

That's only if they're not eating a properly balanced diet. It's totally irrelevant to the fact that smoking causes low birth weight.

My family have always had almost turkeys! Look if you think that a few fags during pregnancy is going to have a huge effect then I am never going to convince you different. All i can go by is my own family line and to be totally honest it hasn't had an effect.

Its been pretty out there in the news recently that children where the parents are veggie and vegan are starting to have very detrimental effects due to not getting the right nutrients. Its not my place to think they are or not, same as it's not your place to say whether a pregnant woman should have a fag now and again.

Please - please - just stop judging people you don't know and haven't even met. This is awful. You have zero idea what their lives are like. Would you have a go at a fat pregnant woman? No? Have a word.

This is women (people) at their worst. Stop.

MumsOnCrack is your username a clue as to why you hate people judging?

Bloody vegans and their inability to understand how to eat properly 😁 I am actually dead you know as I don't eat any protein (apparently)

For those who argue it's her body and her choice. What about the choice of her unborn child who could be affected by her selfish actions?

Well tell that to the doctors concerned about children being born with rickets now then. This was a problem that had almost diminished. Unfortunately it has come back again due to women thinking looking good and listening to countless "health" adds and being bloody obsessed about themselves have now created. Hypocrisy at the highest.

See your first sentence. It's her body. That's it.

Obviously I'd much prefer people not to smoke/drive heavily etc during pregnancy but it's entirely the mother's right to do so.

Lol - I'm not actually on crack! But if I saw someone who was so addicted I'd feel sad, not venemous. I just think we can all be kinder.

...I know I sound like a wanker!

You need to eat a bit of meat now and again and the smoker need to cut down.. Perfect.

Nobody "needs a bit of meat".

Luckily bitching about a stranger's pregnancy habits on the internet will miraculously save the unborn child!

I love partaking in a little light social control.

Seriously, if you're genuinely worried about people leaving the building, ask her to move. Otherwise, mind your own. I'm sure you're not perfect yourself.