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Smoking weed while pregnant....
Out of strict curiosity, well and some boredom, I googled "smoking weed while pregnant" and found something very interesting.
Simply google: Melanie Dreher... She is the Dean of Nursing at the University of Iowa and did a 5 year study on the effects of smoking weed while pregnant. https://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1404.html
After reading the first article I watched the youtube video of a presentation she did on her studies. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9WorIM0RhA
Makes you wonder what to believe!
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Re: Smoking weed while pregnant....
lol i was just this minute having a conversation with my cousin who was telling me how she smoked weed through her entire pregnancy. my mother and my aunt did as well. i have no idea what doctors say about it, but they give it to people for a lot now- so who knows.
personally i havent smoked pot since i was a teenager and couldnt even fatham wanting to do it while preg, just because it always made me feel icky anyway it would probably be 1000% worse during pregnancy. to each their own!
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Spontaneous pregnancy #1
DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube
Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016
Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3
Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
lol @ refuse to look at ham.. that is hillarious
Spontaneous pregnancy #1
DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube
Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016
Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3
Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
For those of you on your phones and cant follow the link:
After 5 years of very extensive studies they found that not only did the children from marijuana using mothers measure the same as those who did not, they excelled in most areas as well.
Its VERY interesting to read. I had a friend tell me that his girlfriends midwife recommended weed for nausea and appetite issues, he told me this during my first pregnancy and I discarded the comment as absolutely crazy. Reading this article makes ME feel like the crazy one! ha ha
Spontaneous pregnancy #1
DD1 July 31, 2011
Trying for #2 since Oct 11
Spontaneous pregnancy #2= Ectopic #2= lost left tube
Spontaneous pregnancy #3= DD2 January 29, 2016
Spontaneous pregnancy #4= Ectopic #3
Spontaneous pregnancy #5= Baby #3 is a BOY!!!
I have a friend who said HER friend smoked pot until she was 6 months pregnant and the only reason she stopped was so she didn't test positive on drug tests when/after the baby was born, but the baby was born perfectly healthy..
I am one of those anti-drug people tho, so I wouldn't do it anyway if I was pregnant.
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You can have both of those things. Just sayin'. Not that i'm going to run out and smoke a joint.
exactly.
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Well put...and don't believe everything you read. There is a reason marijuana is illegal and you shouldn't be using it anyways - why on earth would you risk it and use it while you are pregnant?
a friend's girlfriend smoked pot and cigs, and drank mountain dew like crazy when she was pregnant with her 2 babies. they were not small babies when they were born, they are still chunky monkeys now. but they are slow. so is the mom & dad though, lol. we had a discussion about this when she was smoking pot with the first one and i found out. it's bad, it's illegal and you don't really know what its doing to the baby. her answer was "my mom smoked while she was pregnant with her 3 kids." i all but laughed in her face. 2 of whom didn't make it past 10th grade, the last is only 15 and has major social issues. he still sleeps in mommy and daddy's bed and is afraid of the dark and being home alone. also, both of her babies are sick a lot too.
like someone else said, it's 40 weeks, why take any unnessarry chances. and if you aren't telling your doctor and hiding it from most of the world, then maybe you shouldn't be doing it.
Yep, which is why I think this "study" is a bunch of BS and if any of those babies are ok, it's pure dumb luck.
I'm also sure their completely fried parents will screw up whatever chances they have anyway.
You should be careful eating lunchmeat. Don't want to catch listeriosis and harm the baby...glass houses. I don't smoke anything legal or not and I don't condone it, but I don't see how googling can cause concern.
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This. It was even stressed that it was pure curiosity and boredom. I've googled some stupid stuff just because I had nothing else to do. I've never smoked pot, nor do I intend to (mainly because of control issues). But I would completely support legalizing it. There are scientific studies suggesting that alcohol is actually worse for you and more dangerous than pot. Amsterdam has it legalized, and they regulate it so there aren't any "fillers" to worry about. Plus, imagine all the tax dollars we could get! Problem solved.
Yes you are ignorant, I'd even venture to call you a dumb @ss. People who are willing to ignore scientific studies that are contrary to their own ideas of morality "worry me".
Butbutbut....science is SCARY! Jocie makes an excellent point. I'm picturing Krissymac with her fingers in her ears going "lalalalala!"
Well at least you can admit that you're thinking is complete ignorance. Lunch meat seems more ignorant to me because you have obviously been TOLD it can be dangerous and get you ignore the facts. There is NO study showing that marijuana has caused birth defects. Even in "What to expect" they say that studies that have been done cannot be linked to marijuana directly because the mothers using were also using other drugs including alcohol and cigs... this is the only study done where the variables were controlled enough to show actual results from marijuana.
So there is a 15 year study showing NO effect of marijuana use, and in most cases children did BETTER. And if you DID read the article or watch the video, when going back and seeking out these children as adults, they all led regular lives and measured the same in aptitude and what not.
And to top it off, all other north american studies openly admit that there is evidence directly linking marijuana to birth defects.
After reading these posts it seems alot of you replied without reading the article or watching the video.
1) This study was done in jamaica where it is legal to smoke, they use it for medical purposes for everyone, adults, pregnant women and children.
2) Has everyone forgot about medical marijuana!??! Its legal! I know a few friends who grow and use medical marijuana for chemo and other diseases. I understand going to some sketchy dealer on the street is not a good idea because it definitely could be laced. But the study was showing the use of MEDICAL marijuana.
3) Saying that it is bogus because kids were ok "for a few years" is ridiculous! If there was an issue you would see it in the first 5 years, and ONCE AGAIN, if you read the article or watched the video you would have seen that they went back and found over 40 of the children from the original study as adults and showed NO significant difference between the two different groups of users and non.
4) My one main point is that there is NO study done to this extreme extensiveness where all other variables were taken into account that can prove to me that smoking pot causes defects. Mainly because our country is run my conservative religious people who wont condone such research.
Im not saying I smoke, but i know people who have and during my first pregnancy i was like alot of you thinking, "what an idiot! That is so horrible!" But when I got to this question in "what to except" and they openly admit that there is no direct link because of inadequate studies, i looked into it further because I was curios if i was being ignorant. Turns out I was.
All I want is for all you ladies who say "Id rather be ignorant", take the time to at least look at what we're talking about before criticizing people who think differently than you.
Unless you have a typo in your last statement, then you totally condradicted yourself...
Sorry to say, but I doubt your buddies who smoke marijuana are smoking legal, medical grade marijuana.
So for arguments sake, to say that smoking marijuana is okay in pregnancy may hold true for this small control group - but it is highly doubtful that the majority of pot smokers are smoking the medical grade weed. More than likely they are smoking for their own gratification and not for any medicinal purposes.
I have both of these things several times a week! Ha, ha! I also eat turkey lunch meat sandwiches and have the occasional glass of wine. Oh, I know....I'm going to be a terrible mother!
ETA: I was high.
Technically, its not legalized in any country, not even Amsterdam/The Netherlands. Decriminalized and non-enforced, but still a misdemeanor to possess or sell. The coffee shops are illegal, its just that the law enforcement doesn't really bother.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_policy_of_the_Netherlands
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Amen! And I think it's really unfortunate that this goes beyond just this point. Everyone is so quick to judge, yet they don't even have all the facts, or even accurate ones. Get over yourselves and quit thinking you're better than anyone else.
I'm not saying that I am better than anyone, and I don't think anyone had that tone in their replies to this post. I am however saying that because one study said that smoking marijuana is ok during pregnancy, certainly doesn't mean I am gonna go light up a joint and smoke away.
I don't think that was the point of this post either. But I'm looking at it from this angle; the typical daily/weekly pot smoker does not smoke medical grade pot in a controlled environment. Show me a study that shows there are no long term issues from a mom smoking pot while pregnant that she bought from a street dealer, and then we can talk. Big difference.
Well that one is perfectly fine!