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Smoking & babies??

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Girlmum21 · 13/03/2022 01:51

I need help.. maybe for me maybe for baby. So in June my dad passed away from COPD & lung clot when i was 20 weeks pregnant. He passed away due many years of smoking (astrazeneca jab he had 2 weeks before passing did not help but thats a story for another time🥲) my baby girl was 8 weeks premature due to me having preeclampsia (she is now 6 months but corrected to 4), my father in law who only just started smoking last year (🥲) is around my baby daily, now this is where i don’t know if i’m going crazy. He does not wash his hands after a cigarette, does not change jumper and if i’m downstairs sorting her a bottle and he comes in from a cigarette and he hears her crying he heads straight up to see her. Now i know thats sweet but i feel like i have PTSD from my dad smoking its where i cant hold or pick up anything to do with smoking. My mums in a mental health facility since my dad passed away who smokes and i need to get my partner to buy and drop her cigarettes because i cant touch them. I feel like the trauma of watching my dad go through what he did lives with me each day and although i know my daughter will not suffer like my dad did the thought of passive smoking SCARES ME. My partner brushes it off like im going crazy. What do i do?

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Mrsmch123 · 13/03/2022 06:53

Lots of my immediate family smoke. I spoke to them all and said if they are going to smoke then they needed to wash their hands and wait an hour before holding the baby. Obv don't let them smoke in my house. No one had an issue with it. My baby my rules end of. I would just say to them you spoke with the health visitor and this is what she recommended if you don't want to say.

NowEvenBetter · 13/03/2022 12:43

Your boyfriend clearly doesn’t give a shit, and him and his father aren’t bothered enough to educate themselves on basic things like SIDS, so it’ll be up to you to advocate for your kid.

Coyoacan · 13/03/2022 21:44

Thanks @GiraffesInScarfs for your good sense.

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