Letting your baby stay in a smoker's home... info!

Re: Letting your baby stay in a smoker's home... info!

• aegrimm member

  September 2009

  Excellent point. There is such a thing as THIRD hand smoke. That's teh chemicals on the skin, hair and clothing of a smoker as well as their furniture if they smoke indoors.

  My baby will not be held by anyone who smokes. I don't care who you are.

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• marciabeth

  September 2009

  So sad! How could anyone want to mask that sweet baby smell with nasty cigarette stench!!

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• ShannonLK

  September 2009

  My BIL and his GF had a baby a couple of months ago.  Both of them smoke and she smoked her entire pregnancy.  It irks me so bad to think about that baby in that kind of environment ALL the time.

  My mom smoked for years and one day gave them up.  She hadn't smoked for years but was still diagnosed with lung cancer and passed away almost 8 years ago.  I know not everyone gets cancer but it's hard to watch people you care about do those kinds of things to their bodies.

  My dad's wife now....is a smoker.  After watching his wife of 32 years die from lung cancer I don't know he doesn't tell her she has to quit.  Makes no sense to me.

  Sorry for the rant - I needed to get that out! LOL

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• rebecca_cross

  September 2009

  This is why we have a change of clothes for my DF and his father at DF's grandparents house, right next door, so when they are done killing themselves if they want to be around me they can preserve my life.  

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• Scooter359

  September 2009

  These are interesting. I was raised in a household of smokers(and am 100% healthy), my mother still smokes but I am still letting her interact with him. she only smokes outside and will wash her hands when shes done if shes going to touch him or his things, less than 5% of any active ingredient actually gets absorbed through the skin but its still nice to not take the chance. No matter how much you protect them now, they are going to be exposed to it one day.

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• ballugurl

  September 2009

  dunvilles:

  Hey Ladies- I went to the "Bodies Exhibit" last winter and found out some scary facts about smoking...

   1. for every cigarette you smoke, take 20 minutes off your life.

  2. Even if someone who smokes, does so outside & away from the baby, the baby can still ABSORB the nicotine through his skin!!! That means if its on your clothes etc...

  think about it, house hold chemicals can irritate your skin coming off of a rag... why wouldn't nicotine! SCARY!

  We're not letting our baby stay at my MIL's house because she is a chain smoker! My mom quit when I told her these facts!!

  I agree but was wondering more where in Indiana you live. I live in Noblesville. I missed the bodies exhibit but heard it was awesome!

  

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• Temp36641187503164

  September 2009

  aegrimm:

  Excellent point. There is such a thing as THIRD hand smoke. That's teh chemicals on the skin, hair and clothing of a smoker as well as their furniture if they smoke indoors.

  My baby will not be held by anyone who smokes. I don't care who you are.

  
  
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  We haven't seen or talk to MIL (& SFIL) for 2 years but think they will try to contact us when the baby is born (short backstory - they use drugs, drink excesively and chain smoke. They abused DH growing up and there are many times SFIL put a loaded gun to DH's head. Not good people, not people I even want my child to meet). We have already established ground rules that we will give them if they are to meet our children. No drinking, profanity or smoking before coming to see our child. Clothes must be freshly washed and they can't smell of cigarettes at all. They must also come to our home. We know they won't agree to these ground rules so we know they won't ever meet our children.
  
  They have custody of DH's niece and she always smells like an ashtray. I don't let FIL (he picks her up every other weekend) bring any of her toys in our home. When we used to "talk" to MIL we would watch niece for a week or 2 at a time and washing her items 3 times wouldn't get the horible stench of cigarettes out of her stuff. I have bad allergies and all of my siblings have asthma and just the smell of it on clothes will set off an attack.

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• ShannonLK

  September 2009

  ballugurl:

  dunvilles:

  Hey Ladies- I went to the "Bodies Exhibit" last winter and found out some scary facts about smoking...

   1. for every cigarette you smoke, take 20 minutes off your life.

  2. Even if someone who smokes, does so outside & away from the baby, the baby can still ABSORB the nicotine through his skin!!! That means if its on your clothes etc...

  think about it, house hold chemicals can irritate your skin coming off of a rag... why wouldn't nicotine! SCARY!

  We're not letting our baby stay at my MIL's house because she is a chain smoker! My mom quit when I told her these facts!!

  I agree but was wondering more where in Indiana you live. I live in Noblesville. I missed the bodies exhibit but heard it was awesome!

   I'm in Indiana too - Bloomington.

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• dunvilles member

  September 2009

  ballugurl:

  dunvilles:

  Hey Ladies- I went to the "Bodies Exhibit" last winter and found out some scary facts about smoking...

   1. for every cigarette you smoke, take 20 minutes off your life.

  2. Even if someone who smokes, does so outside & away from the baby, the baby can still ABSORB the nicotine through his skin!!! That means if its on your clothes etc...

  think about it, house hold chemicals can irritate your skin coming off of a rag... why wouldn't nicotine! SCARY!

  We're not letting our baby stay at my MIL's house because she is a chain smoker! My mom quit when I told her these facts!!

  I agree but was wondering more where in Indiana you live. I live in Noblesville. I missed the bodies exhibit but heard it was awesome!

   I live in Columbus, Indiana. The exhibit was really neat!!! I'm glad I went!

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• dunvilles member

  September 2009

  ballugurl:

  dunvilles:

  Hey Ladies- I went to the "Bodies Exhibit" last winter and found out some scary facts about smoking...

   1. for every cigarette you smoke, take 20 minutes off your life.

  2. Even if someone who smokes, does so outside & away from the baby, the baby can still ABSORB the nicotine through his skin!!! That means if its on your clothes etc...

  think about it, house hold chemicals can irritate your skin coming off of a rag... why wouldn't nicotine! SCARY!

  We're not letting our baby stay at my MIL's house because she is a chain smoker! My mom quit when I told her these facts!!

  I agree but was wondering more where in Indiana you live. I live in Noblesville. I missed the bodies exhibit but heard it was awesome!

   I live in Columbus, Indiana. The exhibit was really neat!!! I'm glad I went!

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• dunvilles member

  September 2009

  Scooter359:

  These are interesting. I was raised in a household of smokers(and am 100% healthy), my mother still smokes but I am still letting her interact with him. she only smokes outside and will wash her hands when shes done if shes going to touch him or his things, less than 5% of any active ingredient actually gets absorbed through the skin but its still nice to not take the chance. No matter how much you protect them now, they are going to be exposed to it one day.

  The effects of second hand smoke can take years to show up! Hopefully you'll never have to find that out! My DH was raised with his mom smoking ( a LOT) his dad didn't smoke, and he developed asthma/allergies because of it. Since he's been out of her house, college/married, he has no asthma or allergies. It was completely because of the smoke in his home. If he hugs his mom & she has been smoking his eyes get all red, watery, & he starts sneezing. He was NOT born with this allergy...

  Less than 5% of an active ingredient getting absorbed in the skin... not worth the risk... not to me.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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• oohgrrl11

  September 2009

  Both mine and DH's parents are chainsmokers. BIL & SIL don't allow their daughter over to MIL/FIL's house even though they won't smoke inside when they are over. I hear all the comments about how crazy, controlling, etc SIL is because she puts her foot down. I am nervous about how to handle this one...

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