When one is pregnant in the initial stage they might feel very queasy. This ends up with a stomach upset often and some women also struggle a lot from their morning sickness. Apart from that some people may struggle from baby jitters and they search for a way to calm down their nerves.

In order to calm themselves down some women might turn to marijuana intake and also because they continue to smoke them to relax their anxiety. But do lighting up a joint when one is pregnant is actually okay? Well according to many medical communities and studies marijuana pregnancy and breastfeeding is not a very safe option because it may affect the growing baby inside the womb by hampering the development of the child over time.

There are some doctors or midwives who can recommend some occasional use of moderate marijuana during pregnancy in a medicinal form in order to treat the anxiety syndrome and morning sickness. Sometimes this may act on a positive note because many women respond to that treatment and can eat healthy food as well. But again one also needs to remember that marijuana contains THC which can change all sorts of processes in a human body. This can very much affect brain function and heart. So it is always advisable to avoid that when one is pregnant. It so happens that when smoke of marijuana goes inside the body then the THC can very much cross the placenta and then enters the blood stream of the foetus. As a result, a pregnant woman is definitely sharing the drug with their baby.

Though one cannot pin point what exact effect THC has on the baby but there are some definite evidences in medical science that marijuana can always affect pregnancy and so one needs to stay away from them to be safe.

In fact, weekly use of marijuana when one is pregnant can make the pregnancy very much risky. As per medical studies the babies born from normal pregnancy are much healthier than the babies born from pregnancy where mothers have taken marijuana during the tenure. Those babies were either born underweight or they have smaller heads at birth.

Marijuana affects the cognitive ability among the adults and so it has the same effect on the developing babies inside as well. They directly affect the nerves of the babies and reduce the power of oxygen intake there. Also it can alter the heart rate of the babies and so the baby’s exposure to the uterus becomes more than the other normally developed babies. As a result, after birth even the problems are not so prominent in the beginning, but these children faces problems in mathematics, reading comprehension and many more while growing up.

So it is best to avoid smoking cigarettes and smoking pots when one can a baby inside their body. this will lead to a healthy pregnancy. Marijuana use during pregnancy and breastfeeding can really be harmful for the growth and development of the baby when it comes out.