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    Let me try to put this in perspective. And I'm not speaking in the abstract. I am not having a baby. I am an old man. But I seen a pregnant woman vaping and that's why I asked. I'm no Sigmund Freud. vape on
    Now that's out of the way, what are your thoughts?
     
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    I would not criticize a woman for vaping if it is the lesser of two evils thing. Better than smoking. No, it is not good for the baby but I smoked thru my pregnancy and I am sure I burst from the room into a cloud of smoke as my mom, dad and all neighborhood bridge playing mothers smoked. My daughter vaped through her pregnancy as she could not quit. I was glad she was not smoking. She did refrain from that.
     

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    Is it safe to vape if you are a female carrying a baby. Is it safe or is it not safe?
    I didn't know the answer to this question so I figured we could figure it out

    It's only safe if you are male and carrying a baby.

    Nah, seriously though; if ya gotta ask figure it isn't.
     
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    Okay. This is now a thought exercise.

    I'm now imagining gassing up my car and looking across the island to find a preggy mama vaping away while she's filling up her Fiero.

    Should I say something (as an ECFer)?
    Vaping while pumping gas eh? Pregnant or not that sounds daring
     

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    Is it safe to vape if you are a female carrying a baby. Is it safe or is it not safe?
    No, it's not safe. Nothing is safe.

    Can we quantify the risk? Probably not. We know smoking during pregnancy is not good, but we don't know how much of the ill effect is due to nicotine vs. other substances in the smoke that aren't present in vapor such as carbon monoxide (just to name one). Moreover, I'm not aware of any studies that compare the risk of smoking with vaping with doing neither during pregnancy.

    Digression:

    In 1992, when my wife (a never-smoker) was pregnant with our son, the conventional wisdom was that coffee and caffeine were quite bad and pregnant women should stop consuming them. So my wife did just that, which was anything but pleasant for her.

    Five years later, in 1997, when she was pregnant with our daughter, the advice had changed to, "Don't drink a whole pot every day, but there's nothing wrong with having one cup in the morning." Since she had resumed drinking coffee the moment our son was born, my wife was very happy about that.

    Interestingly enough, my son (who was not exposed to caffeine in utero) doesn't consume it in any form, but my daughter (who was) started drinking coffee in her late teens and her motto is, "Death before Decaf!" :)

    I have often wondered if exposure to "addictive" substances in the womb increases the tendency to become addicted to those same substances later in life.
     

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    thats good cause he would not qualify for the study

    you have been trying to vape the wrong breasts there
    @Vaperer is the OP and therefore by definition the subject. While I laud your selflessness in search of scientific truth, I’m afraid you’re stuck with old man boobies. Bring some baseline of something. The skin thins as it ages and can become very chapped.
     

    bombastinator

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    its a scientific study
    any study with only one subject would have no validity
    esp in the chain vape section
    if your willing to get him pregnant i would then be willing to add him to the study
    Hey. I am not the one volunteering here. That’s on you. My only crime is overly literal linguistic issues.
     
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