Help me explain to my mother why people shouldn't smoke in same room as my son!

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Just following on from my other thread, can anyone link me some useful sites so I have some facts to throw at her?

I shouldn't need to bloody explain to be honest, as both my parents are quite anti-smoking, but they let relatives smoke in the same room as DS when we're all there and it's a real pita when we have to take him out.

Cheers!

have no info sorry, but thats terrible, and u say your parents are both antismoking? how shocking that they let people smoke around your ds myself and my husband are smokers, but i never smoked through pregancys and we never ever smoke in the house, we go in the garden, it can cause asthma and other respitory problems in children.

Yup, they do. It happens on Sundays, and this has mainly come up after a party yesterday.

The people who smoke are very old aunties, so my mum doesn't want them going outside. My sister's bf also smokes so they open the french windows but we still take DS out until they've stopped and it's cleared. But yesterday my mum was actively encouraging my aunt to smoke in the same room as me and DS with all the windows shut. Thing is, she knows I'm pregnant as well, but no one else does yet. Aunty insisted on going outside thank god but I really need to make my mum understand that it is not ok to expose DS and his unborn sibling to other people's smoke!

Article here might be of interest. How old is your ds?

Stuff from FSIDs.

ASk her if she would give a fag to your child because by encouraging other people to smoke while your children are around, that's actually what she is doing.

Having said that, if it seldomly happen, perhaps the easier step is just to continue doing as you do, go to another room but anounce you are comming back once they are finished.

oooh, fab, cheers Merry. DS is 16 months old. He's also ill with a cough at the moment to make matters worse!

Does anyone know at what age SIDS (or SUDS or whatever it is this week!) stops being a risk? I've often wondered about this and never got around to looking it up...

I think it becomes slightly less of a risk at about six months, which is why they say if you want you can move your baby into another room then.

Actually, reading this article, the fact that I am 5 wks pregnant and passive smoking can increase risk of a miscarriage should be reason enough!

Oh crikey, that's a bit scary isn't it? I hope you manage to get them to stop smoking in front of you.