Marijuana, the cannabis sativa is one of the most illicit drugs that commonly used during the pregnancy and lactation. Researches show that use of marijuana in the women contemplated for pregnancy and during the pregnancy is severely associated with higher rate of stillbirth, preterm birth, and inappropriate growth of the fetus.Marijuana use during pregnancy and breastfeeding not only affects the pregnancy and growth of the fetus but also impacts on the brain development of the baby and this happens when marijuana is transported through mother’s blood, crosses the placenta, and enters into the fetal circulation and distributed over the unborn.
What is Marijuana and how it Impacts?
Marijuana is made from the dry leaves and flowers of the plant cannabis sativa. It contains an active ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that causes people to feel “high’. Impacts of marijuana on different people may vary but some common symptoms are:
- Increase blood pressure
- Heart rate becomes fast
- Eyes become red
- Increase appetite
- Mouth becomes dry
- Slow reaction time
- Poor condition
Pregistry strongly suggests to encourage not taking marijuana is you are pregnant or contemplated to conceive.
Breastfeeding and Impact of Marijuana
More rigorous researches are required to know as accurately as to how marijuana and breastfeeding during pregnancy affect the babies who are breastfed. However, some common risks are:
- Risk of SIDS — Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) increases to your baby if the baby is exposed to marijuana.
- Affects the Brain and Nervous System — As a strong psychoactive drug, marijuana directly affects the child’s brain and nervous system. During lactation, it comes from the blood of the mother to her breast milk and during breastfeeding; it is transported to the baby’s body. So the risk of impaired brain and nervous system develop more rapidly in the children who are breastfed.
- Hyperactivity — There is enough evidence from the different study show that a child’s exposure to marijuana increases a significant risk of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). This happens to the children who are exposed to cannabis through breast milk develops hyperactivity and impulsivity disorder.
- Mental Functioning — The early exposure to marijuana damages long time attention to a particular work, flexibility to thinking, the ability to hold information in the working memory.
- Emotional Regulation — Emotional reactivity of a child is highly damaged by the early exposure to cannabis.
- Risk of Drug Use Later — If you are using marijuana during pregnancy and lactation, it indicates that you are exposing your baby more to the drug through breastfeeding and that may increase the possibility that your baby in future will go on to use drugs even chance is there to use a harder drug.
Plan to Stop Taking Marijuana
Pregistry suggests helping you to stop marijuana by the following plans:
- Keep away the drug utensils
- Learn helpful relaxation techniques
- Think in a positive sense that you can quit it
- Delay the urge for marijuana and indeed it may pass.
- Detach from the associations who use and socialize marijuana
- Distract yourself with more pleasurable and positive events
- Review and set your daily goals, determine your mood with deep and controlled breathing.
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