Drug abuse is baby abuse
Being a mother and carrying an innocent child
inside of you is the most important thing you will ever do, besides raising
that child.
You have complete responsibility for another
life. You determine for the most part if your baby will be born healthy.
You determine what the baby eats, drinks, feels and maybe even hears.
Erin Fisk
If you put toxic substances in your body like
smoke, drugs or alcohol, you are committing child abuse. You are hurting
your baby on purpose with no regard for the child's life.
When a child is inside the womb it is subject
to anything the mother puts in her body. Mothers are a baby's home, safety
and security. And they need their mothers to see a doctor regularly.
They depend on you to not smoke, take drugs
or drink alcohol while they live inside of you.
When mothers take drugs and other harmful
substances they go directly to the baby. When a mother uses cocaine,
it actually goes right through the placenta and gives the baby the same
high the mother is experiencing.
This is not to mention all the other terrible
side effects drugs have on babies.
If a child is born addicted to cocaine
or crack, it is in terrible pain from the start. Their little nerve endings
do not fuse together which makes the slightest touch unbearable.
Babies born with addiction cry constantly
from the pain. It is such a cruel and torturous way to bring a baby into
this world.
It should be a crime and is a horrendous
act of cruelty for mothers to use anything toxic while pregnant.
Drug addiction is one way of abusing your
unborn baby, not to mention the use of alcohol. Mothers who use alcohol
can give birth to babies with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and many other birth
defects.
Mothers who smoke risk their babies being
born with chronic respiratory problems and again many other birth defects.
I am talking to mothers-to-be who are not
taking proper care of themselves and are not giving much regard to their
condition.
This issue reaches many people, some of
whom may not know abusing substances while pregnant can have so many effects.
Erin Fisk is a public relations major. |
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