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i have the same question i had a friend that smoked weed during pregnancy and her kids are fine i had another friend who smoked it while b___stfeeding and during pregnancy and she said her kid at first had collic then thats when she started to smoke weed while b___stfeeding and the colic went away

just my own 0.02 cents, my mom smoked weed when she was pregnant with me. i am not rich, but i make pretty good money. also, i got A's and B's all through school, and i have always been smart as hell. i started reading when i was 4, and i as reading to my entire kindergarden cla__s when i was 5. soooo, if weed made me this intelligent, i'm glad my mom toked up.

hello my name is Dr phillphs smoking marijuana can acutally affect your baby.Because when you inhale it.It goes down into your babys air in the umbilical cord and goes into the baby's blood message me back on what you are doing about it. Yours sincerley Dr phillps dizziedevil12@msn.com

julie, you are hilarious, i just have to say. thank you for the entertainment! now i'll go smoke a blunt for my 133 point IQ and see if i get any smarter...lol...toke on my fellow smokin mommaz...oh yeah, dr. phil here has me cracking up too!

thank you nm, as usual. some ppl are just ignorant...its too bad that the rest of society is deprived of the oxygen idiots use up.

Now, during my pregnancy, I didn’t touch cigarettes, alcohol or coffee or even a single tylenol. I even gave natural birth without any drugs, because I think alot of medically aproved drugs ARE dangerous. BUT, if it were legal and available, I would have used marijuna to treat a very poor appet_te that I was suffering from during pregnancy. There are powerful interests who do not want marijuana/hemp legalized. Hemp prohibition has been tied not only to the obvious pharmaceutical interests (how can the pharmaceutical industry make money off homegrown?), but to industries such as the petro-chemical, chemical and logging industries as well, since hemp has many industrial purposes. But, look at everything that the pharmaceutical-medical industry DOES give to children. Pathogen-tainted vaccines full of mercury, aluminum, and formaldyhyde which are proven to be very harmful to neurological development and may be linked to cancer. Thimerosol, which has been linked to autism. Likewise, things like fluoride in our water, or drugs like ritalin and prozac, disposable chemical-laden diapers (which can causes asthamatic attacks, possible male infertility and environmental harm), and formula use. For a great deal of the last century, hospitals were marketing the use of formula, even corn syrup, for babies. Now, the sad thing is that unlike marijuana, formula use actually DOES correlate to lower IQs. The sad thing in this post is authoratarian women thinking that children should be removed from their mothers. It's very hateful, angry, sad, and destructive thinking. Its very fear based. I'd ask those women who feel this way to a___lyze where their info that informs their opinion comes from, and to think about who's interests marijuana prohibition serves..

First off, I wonder if Angel has been back to this site since the topic has went crazy. I bet she didn't think she would make such a stir! Well, I got on the net tonight to find that same info...I myself have decided to wait it out. I am not going to smoke until I am finished b___stfeeding, my son's birthday is near Halloween. SO.... I did come across a little info before I reached this site.... In women who rarely used maryjane, 0.8% of the dose that the mother had was secreated into their babies milk. In mothers who smoked regularly, it was like 8:1 ratio of mother:baby dose. SO, if you smoke every day, even only a little, the THC is stored in your fat, and b___stmilk is a lot of fat...then your baby will be getting a (in my opinion) significant dose for a baby. You know, about the research...why rely on research that is mostly inconclusive to start with and doesn't even have any long-term research...I myself believe that I as a parent should do my best to give my child the biggest possible advantage in life and if that means being more safe than sorry then I am glad I took those precautions, b/c WHO KNOWS? Obviously from all this, a person can at least gather that nobody KNOWS. And what if....don't stick yourself with doubt that you didn't do all that you possibly could for your child. I don't know anyone's circ_mstances, and I am not stating that I believe that either choice would be better for a person other than myself. I just think that Angel knows what to do. If you have to ask the question to begin with....then you obviously feel that it is wrong in some way. Don't go on what I or anyone else says. Ask yourself the question, and actually listen to yourself and not any other influences in your life; do what YOU know is right. Whatever you choose, stand behind your choice and be confident in it. If you can't be confident in your choice, it may be the wrong choice. BEST TO YOU AND YOUR BABY ANGEL.

ok, a ? for those who keep saying that they want to avoid a "just in case" scenario.... do you vaccinate????????? there's a HUGE "just in case" scenario for ya! sooooo many babies get sick off of vaccines and even die. check out the SIDS rate linked with vaccines. here's a link for ya; thinktwice.com. even driving in the car is a "just in case" scenario. and EVERYTHING pa__ses into the b___stmilk so it isn't a question of whether it pa__ses thru or not, it's a question of how, if at all, if affects the baby. if you take a tylenol it pa__ses thru the b___stmilk, but that doesn't mean that it is dangerous, kwim? mj is a non-toxic substance and causes NO bodily harm. what are you afraid of it doing to the baby?? in any case, make your own decisions, but don't be IGNORANT. and if you're really high and mighty about what goes into your kids, check out that site on vaccines.... i'd rather smoke an ounce of pot in one sitting than inject those poisons into my precious little ones!!!!!!!!!

one thing i wanted to bring up in my post is the possibility that perhaps, in certain sitauations, the use of marijuana either in pregnancy, b___stfeeding or for stess/postpartum depression MIGHT be helpful.. For instance, if a mother has morning sickness or a poor appet_te, the baby might get some marijuana, but the mother's treatment would mean the fetus/baby would also get valuable nutrients from the mothers improvement in appet_te. Or, a mother suffering from depression/stress MIGHT give the baby THC in the milk, but her relief and relaxation might be preferable to stress hormones in the milk and to a baby coping with the very negative effects of a depressed, overstressed mother. For some mothers who suffer some mental problems that might be treated with marijuana, perhaps marijuana is a safer alternative than suffering from the condition or the corporate-pharmaceuticals. Perhaps, a the baby would far more benefit from having a mother who occasionaly uses marijuana for stress relief, even if that means they may have some THC in the b___stmilk...(mind you, that the b___stmilk with THC and the b___stfeeding relationahsip is still much healthier than most formulas that are loaded with chemicals and lack essential nutrients)... of course, we don't know because it hasn't been studied. Which sucks. why hasn't it been studied? follow the money. IIt hasn't been studied because pharmaceutical companies can not make profits off of it, since it would be easy to grow and they couldn't corner markets (they couldn't copyright it, either). So, there is no funding for research. Very young children will suffer stress and mental illness along with their parents because in their reality they are not separate from "mom"....there is a symbiosis. All I am sayins, is in certain situations, it might be beneficial AND preferable for a mother to be treated with marijuana. For instance, if I were suffering from postpartum depression (which was starting to negatively impact not only me but my child), I"d like the choice of using marijuana instead of prozac, for instance. I don't know the answer to this, but I think it would be something that should be explored. Marijuana is a naturally occuring plant used by many cultures and in many times for medicinal and spiritual purposes. Although I am not a marijuana user, I think that it is a plant that could offer many solutions to ecological, social, health problems and be a good, sound, renewable industrial product that could be lighter on the environment. Unfortunately, the science on marijuana is weak and propagandistic, and people will not sit and think about hemp/marijuana rationally and historically and demand real answers. I think that the government (corporations) doesn't want it, also, because it would cause a bout of self-sufficiency and more localized economies. Unforunately, we are all slaves to propaganda about marijuana because corporate money sponsors alot of our (dis)information (in schools, newspapers, television, government, talk radio). I would urge people to really be skeptical of information that they have received through these venues, and to learn to do research (including following money trails and reading lots of different books). Television, now that IS a dangerous drug.

well said emily, well said. thank you. i have OCD and benefit greatly from mj. i was able to cut back on my ssri's b/c of it. the ssri's give you side effects like sweats, tremors, and nauseua. mj has no side effects. hmmm...

6 kids under 7 and smoking drugs? where is social services

they're out looking for bad mothers, idiot, not pot smoking ones.

smoking drugs while you are supposed to be looking after kids is being a bad mum. what if there is an accident with one of the kids when you are high? not a very responsible thing to do, if you did care about your kids you would stop the stupidity and face your responsabilities

oh, what if there was an accident? there has been, i have three boys, and all is well. matter of fact, i am so capable of handling "real life" that i had my last baby naturally at home, i didn't rely on somebody else delivering my baby for me NOR did i "RUN" from my the reality of the pain and opt for DRUGS (i don't consider mj a drug) to numb me. how many DRUGS did you opt for in delivery? and how many did you come home from the hospital with?? uh-huh..........

You ask if any of us have 6 kids... Like you are worthy of some award for being mother of the year, or procreator of the year. If it is so much work, keep your legs shut and stop getting pregnant. I would label you the idiot. Let me guess, you don't believe in birth control. Oh wait, you are mormon? You clearly have too many kids if you need to get high to take care of them! Also, social services has been known to ignore some of the worst child abuse cases in history. I am sure you would be in some trouble if they knew about your habit and the fact that you get your baby high. I hope you end up in jail so your kids have a chance to thrive.

Hi nm, out of curiosity, could you please tell me how you handle mj around your children? Do you hide it from them or do they know your stance on it? Knowing that it is often times a "gateway" drug, would you be upset if your children started using when they were teenagers? I'm not judging you or anything I'm just curious what your thoughts are and how you think you would handle the situation. If you're wondering, I personally don't use mj. I tried it when I was a teenager and didn't care for it. Many of my friends who did use it went on to become crack heads and junkies so I was really cautious around anything of the sort. I'm not blaming the mj, they made the choice to escalate their use of drugs and their home lives had a lot to do with their choices. I'm just wondering about your opinion about the other scenario.