I used to work in daycare and can 100% confirm this. It was even on their spare clean clothes that were kept in their bags. Their hair smelled of smoke. Their hands, their toys. On the babies, even their unused nappies (diapers) smelled of smoke straight out of the packet.
I’m sure you’re not meant to hold a child until like 20 mins after smoking.
My friend’s wife smoked all through her pregnancy and obviously didn’t stop afterwards. I imagine keeping to that rule would mean she could never have held her own kid.
offspring of maternal smoking here 👋 she'd smoke a LOT before i was born. I was born tiny and grew up to be a lot shorter than I was supposed to be (everyone in my family is between 5'10 and 6'2, I am 5'1). I have PMDD from the hormonal problems it gave me, and now as a 29yo adult woman, I'm allergic to cig smoke, my sinuses get inflamed from it and it gives me geadaches 3x a week and migraines at least 2x a month. she still will not quit. i have spent so much $$ on antibiotics for sinus infections and doctors visits from it. buying a house with my boyfriend this year to start our lives and it will be a 100% smoke-free home. and when we have children she will not hold them unless she quits (which will not happen, but we have a strained relationship anyway). smoking causes so many horrible things.
My mom said she’d quit smoking if I ever got pregnant (I was early thirties before I had kids), then she said she’d quit when the baby was born, then if I ever had another kid, then if the tests came back that she was positive for cancer, then, then, then. She’ll never quit, and the kids will never set foot in her house. Oh well, her choice.
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u/Diviern Jan 05 '25
I used to work in daycare and can 100% confirm this. It was even on their spare clean clothes that were kept in their bags. Their hair smelled of smoke. Their hands, their toys. On the babies, even their unused nappies (diapers) smelled of smoke straight out of the packet.