Women who smoke while breastfeeding may subject their baby to the risk of …
- A reduction in the breast’s ability to pass key nutrients to the infant
- Addiction
- Atherosclerosis
- Chronic Depression
- Circulatory damage
- Colic or excessive crying
- Decrease in your child’s ability to learn or memorize
- Destruction of brain cells
- Growth of brain neurons to process nicotine
- Less breast milk
- Middle ear infections
- Not being able to initiate breast feeding
- Not wanting to initiate breast feeding due to smoking
- Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)
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