Smoking While Pregnant

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I'm nursing student and there are major risks if a women smokes throughout the pregnancy:

Inactivates matenal-fetal hemoglobin
IUGR (intra uterine growth restriction)
Low birth rate
prematurity
Neurological/intellectual delays into childhood
SIDS occurs twice as often
Kids who's mothers that smoke are more likely to smoke as adults
increase risk for spontanous abortion, PROM, plentca privia