Pregnant women who stop smoking before the fifteenth week of the state reduce the risk of premature birth and babies have short stature, those who continue to smoke throughout their pregnancy, says a new study.
It is known that smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of having abortions, ectopic pregnancies, premature births, stunted babies, stillbirths and death in newborns. But so far not been determined whether stopping smoking in early pregnancy could reduce preterm births and small babies.
Pregnant women who smoke should be supported and assisted to stop the habit during pregnancy, according to experts at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Women who have not quit in the first fifteen weeks are more chances of giving birth prematurely and twice the chance of having smaller babies.
Among women who participated in the study found no difference in the rate of spontaneous preterm birth among women who smoke and those who quit smoking in week fifteen, the same with the rate of small babies. There was also that women who quit smoking did not live more stressed than those who continued to smoke during pregnancy.
