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Smoking is bad for a pregnancy. It is very risky for the fetus. Materials that the mother takes in can pass through the placenta and affect the baby's growth, health, and development. Smoking while pregnant can cause the following: * fetal brain damage * growth retardation/low birth weight * lower or higher than normal infant blood pressure * problems requiring neonatal intensive care * infant death from perinatal disorders * sudden infant death syndrome * mental retardation * respiratory disorders during childhood * Attention Deficit Disorder * other learning and developmental problems * behavioral problems, violence, and criminality * smoking during adolescence * various adult health problems * cancer-causing agents in infants' blood: potentially carcinogenic mutations; and childhood leukemia Other delivery problems can occur as well.
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What are some environmental hazards that might be harmful to a fetus?
Well, if the mother smokes, of course the fetus will then inhale the smoke. If too much smoke is being inhaled, then its highly possible that the baby and sometimes the mother, may die.
What chemicals are in smokes?
mainly tar, nicotine, carbon dioxide
How does thefetus eat?
A fetus gains all the nutrients and food it neds from its mother through the umbilical cord. This means if the mother smokes, drinks or does puts anything harmful in her body that the baby could be born with defects.
What are three harmful substances in tobacco smokes?
tar , nicotine , carbon monoxide
What Structure pushes fetus out of the mother?
The structure that pushes the fetus out of the mother is called the uterus.
Can a fetus survive when mother is a and fetus is b blood group?
Yes, there is no danger to the fetus is the mother is type A and baby is type B
Is alcoholism genetic?
Children of alcoholics are 4 times more likely to become alcoholics. It is widely believed that alcoholismis genetic. However, no alcoholism gene has been found yet.
Is folic acid found in a higher concentration in fetus than mother?
A fetus gets all of it's nutrition from their mother. The mother has all of the nutrients and passes them along to the fetus.
30 weeks pregnant and baby only weights 2 pounds?
the fetus puts on the most weight the last month of pregnancy. Make sure you eat nutritional foods, get rest and DON'T smoke or drink alcohol. Each time an expectant mother smokes and drinks so does the fetus.
What is the function of the placental?
it is the interface between the fetus and the mother's blood supply it acts like a filter - supplying nutrients to the fetus and disposing of waste material from the fetus to the mother all of this without actually mixing the blood of the fetus and the mother
Toxins can enter the fetus by?
blood flow from the mother to the fetus
What passes from the uterus to the mother?
The uterus is an organ and thus part of the mother. Did you mean from the fetus to the mother? If so, the umbilical cord goes from the fetus to the mother
