Pregnancy is an exciting time that introduces many confusing and often scary decisions about your health and the health of your unborn baby. One of the hardest decisions for pregnant women to make is whether or not to seek drug addiction treatment. Women who are pregnant often resist drug addiction treatment for fear of judgment, fear of losing custody of their newborn baby and other children, and fear of going into withdrawal and harming the baby further. What many women don’t realize, however, is that there are drug addiction treatment centers that specialize in treating women and providing support for all the unique issues they face.
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Drinking alcohol during pregnancy can have devastating effects on your baby and can cause a wide range of physical and mental birth defects. Even having just a few drinks throughout the week can be damaging. According the U.S. Surgeon General, women who binge drink (consume five or more drinks during any one occasion) and women who have five or more drinks a week during pregnancy have a significant chance of giving their unborn baby a range of disorders known as baby fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs). These disorders can be lifelong afflictions and include physical, mental, behavioral and learning disabilities. The most severe effect of drinking during pregnancy is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), a combination of physical and mental birth defects. FAS is one of the most common causes of mental retardation and is the only cause that is 100% preventable.
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Cocaine abuse during pregnancy can harm the development of your baby and have lasting effects long into childhood that include learning problems, behavioral problems and ADHD. It’s important for women who use cocaine during pregnancy to understand that every time they use, their baby is using as well. Toxins from cocaine will pass through your placenta and into the baby, potentially creating growth and birth defects in utero and painful withdrawal symptoms after birth.
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Heroin use during pregnancy is extremely dangerous and requires specialized treatment in order to safely detox both the mother and the baby. Fetal addiction to heroin is very common and babies born to mothers with a heroin addiction will have to be treated for withdrawal symptoms. If you’re suffering from a heroin addiction during pregnancy, it’s absolutely necessary for your health and the health of your baby to get help now. Here’s what you need to know about heroin addiction and pregnancy.
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Seeking treatment for drug addiction is never easy to do, but it’s made even more difficult for women who are pregnant. Pregnant women face unique barriers to overcoming substance addiction that include embarrassment, judgment from health care providers, fear of harming the baby further by going into withdrawal, and fear of losing custody of their newborn child. All of these factors can prevent a woman from seeking necessary drug addiction treatment during pregnancy.
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Methamphetamines abuse (which includes crystal meth, speed and Ecstasy) can create serious health problems, but methamphetamine addiction and pregnancy is an especially dangerous combination. Using meth creates anxiety, increased blood pressure and heart rate, exhaustion, poor judgment, poor personal hygiene, and mental disorders such as psychosis and depression. For an expectant mother these symptoms can be seriously harmful to not only herself but to her unborn baby as well.
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Drug addiction and pregnancy is a scary combination that is not only dangerous to the mother but to the unborn baby as well. Babies born to mothers who abused drugs during pregnancy have an increased risk of birth defects, behavioral and developmental problems later in life, and are often born dependent on or addicted to the drug the mother abused.
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Eating Disorders & Pregnancy

There are three primary types of eating disorders. These include anorexia, binge eating disorder, and bulimia. All three of these disorder can be very dangerous, both to one’s physical and mental health. How do these disorders affect a person’s body? Can they cause problems during pregnancy? Finish reading this article »

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What is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a disorder that takes place when a woman consumes too much alcohol during her pregnancy. This prenatal alcohol exposure affects the child unnaturally, causing FAS. Finish reading this article »

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