people smoke weed nearby my house and I don’t know what to do about it

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The smell off weed is supposedly harmful to an unborn baby yet I’m stuck in an area where careless kids smoke weed and throw eggs at cars. I can’t keep my doors and windows closed because I’m always hot and burning up making it hard to breathe and I can’t move away either. I don’t want living in my home to be the reason my baby gets seriously affected. So what can I do? It’s as bad as taking the weed myself I’m not looking forward to being asked if I smoked any weed just because my baby got affected badly. It’s simply not fair that people can freely smoke weed on the streets with no care whatsoever. What do pregnant woman in the same situation do ? :(

The smell off weed is supposedly harmful to an unborn baby

Is it? Not living in second hand smoke, just the smell of weed? I really doubt it.

Whenever I search up smell off weed it says the same thing each time „can affect unborn baby“ so unless googles braindead it seems like it

I doubt weed smoked outside your home counts as weed you smoke.

You can't do anything but close the windows.

How will you cope with a nursery with an open window? Maybe you need to plan moving to a nicer neighbourhood?

We’re stuck here because my fiancé is in the military so we can’t move until they make him

Your senses can be heightened during pregnancy, and the tiny amount of smoke needed for you to be able to smell it, will not harm your baby.
I'd still work out where the smell is coming from and report them to the police/council/landlord. Are you on base? Can you report to modplod? Is it young teens and you can have a word with their parents?

I think you and your baby will be fine. I doubt any harm will happen.

I grew up in Vancouver. If the smell of weed affected unborn babies everyone there would be screwed.

It’s very difficult as I’m 18 and getting anything done at my age they’ll just point fingers and say I’m the one taking weed

Are you in military housing?

Then report it to whoever is in charge of the housing.

If it's not military housing and you're living alone whilst he's on base then your fiancée should be applying for housing for you both.

I lived next door to a weed loving family and the smell of it regularly filled our house whilst I was pregnant.

Both DS are now 6ft plus men in their mid 20s and are just fine.

It's natural to be anxious but, honestly, you'll be fine.

Secondhand smoke of any kind is not great if you are pregnant but just the "smell of weed" won't harm your baby, and secondhand smoke from cigs OR spliffs is not going to be anyway near as bad as you smoking either yourself, so those things are not equivalent at all.

I also think it's very unlikely that if some harm was to come to your baby that a health professional would say "that's DEFINITELY been caused by you smoking spliffs while pregnant". The cause of health issues is rarely that easily identifiable. So please stop worrying about that.

Just to add I know someone who actually smoked spliffs on and off all the way through her pregnancy and her baby was absolutely fine. In fact he's actually quite an exceptional young man know. And loads of people smoke weed in the early stages of pregnancy before they know they are pregnant and we aren't inundated with "weed babies".

I obviously would not recommend smoking anything during pregnancy and I'd try to limit exposure to secondhand smoke where possible but your post reads as if misinformation is fuelling excessive anxiety.

Play loud Mozart with the windows open.

Nah you'll be grand OP.

Weed smoke outside dissipating into the open air won't affect your baby at all.

Just as you're unlikely to be affected by car, bus and lorry fumes unless perhaps you lived on a very busy road and had your windows open all the time.

This is silly.

Why would you report to the police/council/landlord as the PP suggested, if you were actually the one taking it?

That wouldn't make sense to anyone, least of all to the people you'd be reporting to.

Although having said that, none of them will be interested in your complaint I'm afraid.

Weed smokers are everywhere it seems and the police just don't bother unless they're dealing.

I get that it’s unpleasant and I’m sorry you have to put up with it OP, but it won’t harm your baby.