Vaping while pregnant.

[K*Rose]

I just had a baby last month and I completely quit vaping for the pregnancy. It's not just the nicotine I was worried about. While I know that PG and VG are FDA approved and are found in lots of health, beauty and food items, the effects of vaping them have not been established. Believe me I am not anti-vaping, because I am already back to it after giving birth. But, I really don't think that pregnant women should vape, because there are not any studies of the actual effects of vaping PG and VG on adults, let alone an unborn baby. Then again, this is coming from someone who quit caffeine and did nit even take a tylenol while pregnant either. Just my 2 cents.

 

[meli.]

Motherhood is guilt ridden enough, punishing yourself with the concept of failure when you state you have bright, beautiful, healthy daughter, which you clearly love and adore, is being unfair to you both!
I don't do it in front of the kids. I'm not being hypocritical (ok maybe a little ) but I don't want them to do as I do, that doesn't mean Everybody should do as I do.
Every Mother has her own set of circumstances, she has to do what works best for her.

In fact, when I did quit for a few weeks, I ended up in the hospital and my obgyn swore up and down that he would go to his grave denying ever saying it,..."don't quit, just cut down...you're stressing the baby."

Some Mothers can quit not so much because they really want to, but because the baby/ morning sickness plays havoc with them and they can't face a cigarette or the smell, I would imagine vaping can be the same. Some Mothers have the ability to give up, Hat's off to them, but not all Mothers can.
I have often heard doctors/ midwives say 'don't try quitting just cut down'. I've read the same too. If you had the choice of vaping, you might have chosen differently. Judging yourself so harshly is a definite no-no!

But would you vape if you had No requirement to do so, whilst pregnant???

 

[Rhapsodies Fire]

Motherhood is guilt ridden enough, punishing yourself with the concept of failure when you state you have bright, beautiful, healthy daughter, which you clearly love and adore, is being unfair to you both!
I don't do it in front of the kids. I'm not being hypocritical (ok maybe a little ) but I don't want them to do as I do, that doesn't mean Everybody should do as I do.
Every Mother has her own set of circumstances, she has to do what works best for her.

Some Mothers can quit not so much because they really want to, but because the baby/ morning sickness plays havoc with them and they can't face a cigarette or the smell, I would imagine vaping can be the same. Some Mothers have the ability to give up, Hat's off to them, but not all Mothers can.
I have often heard doctors/ midwives say 'don't try quitting just cut down'. I've read the same too. If you had the choice of vaping, you might have chosen differently. Judging yourself so harshly is a definite no-no!

But would you vape if you had No requirement to do so, whilst pregnant???

No, I would not and I would not suggest it to someone else. In fact, I found a new sense of confidence in vaping when I got sick last year. When I was smoking, it didn't matter how sick I was, I'd power through my smokes just because I felt I needed it, knowing full well that it was doing nothing to help me get better. The last time I was sick as a vaper, I was amazed how I didn't feel like vaping ..for four days. So ya...if I were in the same set of circumstances and was vaping instead of smoking, then I feel confident that I would have no problem just not doing it while being pregnant.

Thank you for the supportive and kind words. I'm actually not THAT hard on myself these days, but my words were more of an illustration of the addiction and how firm a grasp it held on me during a highly emotional time. No mother in her right mind would want to or feel complacent about harming the health of her unborn child...and yet there I was, doing it anyway.

For most of her life, she saw me smoking...and growing up, she learned about the harmful effects of smoking. Now its been just a few weeks shy of 2 years since my last cigarette...and I'm proud to say, I'll never have to look into those teary eyes, listening to her heart break (and mine) while she says "Momma, I don't want you to die...please stop smoking" again. I'm proud of that, and where we are together now, her & I.

 

[khmermann]

By the way, my 13yr old daughter is healthy, beautiful and brilliant. It seems I lucked out, but I wish I could have been a better mom and not smoked while being pregnant.

i'm glad your daughter is "healthy, beautiful and brilliant"