Ireland: Doctor calls for more support as 9% of pregnant women smoke

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Doctor calls for more supports as nine per cent of pregnant women in the Coombe smoke

‘We now have a specialist research service in the Coombe which offers supportive help for women to quit during pregnancy because it’s not easy and it’s something that tends to be stigmatised and a little bit ignored.’

The study about vaping while pregnant, which he was on RTÉ Radio 1 to discuss, is the first of it’s kind internationally and has been published in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Discussing the results of the study, Dr Brendan McDonnell said: ‘So we found that in contrast to smokers who have a tendency towards having a low birth weight baby, which causes problems for the baby during pregnancy and delivery and after into childhood, we found that vaping women tend to have normal-sized babies.’

‘So they’ve a much lower incidence of low birth weight compared to smokers and in fact, their babies tend to be similar sizes to non-smokers.’