Of course smoking and breastfeeding are two incompatible things if you wish your baby be a completely happy and healthy child. That is why pregnancy is always the great chance for a smoking lady to give up such a harmful habit. Moreover, to do it is always easier when you are pregnant as at this period your organism undergoes some changes and you often stop liking things which you eat or smelled before and vice versa. That is why you may even start feeling disgust to the taste and smell of the cigarettes. If you do not feel it, you’d still find the way not to smoke at least for the time of pregnancy and breastfeeding.
If you can’t give up smoking you should at least reduce the quantity of cigarettes you smoke. Of course smoking and breastfeeding is not very good but still it is not the reason not to breastfeed your baby. The doctors say that smoking and breastfeeding is not very harmful when you smoke less than twenty cigarettes a day. In this case your breastmilk is not completely safe for your baby but still the risk is minimal. And when you smoke more than twenty cigarettes a day your baby has a great risk to catch some terrible symptoms (vomiting, nausea, abdominal cramps, and diarrhea.)
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