Babies Born Addicted to Drugs and the Side Effects

In today’s society people are talking about babies being born to drugs, and how could a mother do that to their unborn child. Drug addiction is a very serious issue that needs more research. We are still learning the effects of substance abuse. One problem that needs to be looked at is are there enough Rehabilitation Centers, to help the women who are addicted to these different street drugs. Also doctor and nurses should not judge these women but instead give them the best prenatal care that can be provided. We need to see what harm and side affects it has on the mother and baby, so that we can be able to understand better how to treat these women and get them off drugs before they do harm their babies.
Lets start with what they call the lesser of all evils, that would be tobacco. There are over four thousand chemicals in them some of those are nicotine and carbon monoxide. These are the two most dangerous chemicals. Smoking during pregnancy affects the mother and the baby's health before, during, and after the baby is born. The nicotine (the addictive substance in tobacco), carbon monoxide, and numerous other poisons they inhale from tobacco are carried through their bloodstream and go directly to the baby. Smoking while pregnant will: Lower the amount of oxygen available to the mom and the growing baby. It increases the baby's heart rate. It will also increase the chances of having a miscarriage or a stillbirth. It increases the risk of having the baby be born prematurely and/or born with a low birth weight. Lastly it will increase the baby's risk of developing respiratory (lung) problems at birth.
When babies are born they are addicted to the nicotine and will go through withdrawals. Some of those withdrawals could be that they are more excitable, jittery, abnormally tense and rigid, and requiring more handling to calm them. They also show greater stress to the nervous system, the digestive system, and their vision. These symptoms are less noticeable and