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Smoking before and during a pregnancy increases by 5 fold the risk that an infant will die suddenly over the months following birth. Rutgers University’s SIDS Center of New Jersey studied over one-half million white mother-child pairs and over 83,000 black mother-child pairs cataloging maternal smoking stats and the incidence of SIDS.

The data shows that smoking pre-pregnancy increases the SIDS risk about 2 fold for both groups. As smoking continued through the trimesters, the risk for white families rapidly escalated to a whopping 7 fold while the risk for black families gradually increased to about half that at 3.6 fold.

This is yet another good reason to stop smoking if you expect to become pregnant, and your partner should stop as well. Certainly both should ditch the habit once you have conceived. Do it for your baby as well as for yourselves.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-022-01516-0

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