Vaping
I feel like a terrible person. I am 9 weeks pregnant and vaped until I went to my confirmation US at 8 weeks and am craving having a vape to use when I feel stressed. I feel so bad because my first pregnancy I cut everything off easily as soon as I found out and this time around I am so stressed, hormonal and just want to be able to have a puff when stressed. Any other moms struggle with this or have done this? I already know I’m horrible please don’t attack me. I’m really trying here.
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can you lower the nicotine of the vape? or at least reduce it? if you let your dr know they can give advice to helping you quit, you definitely aren't the only one and you aren't horrible, smoking and vaping is an addiction so it's not easy to stop
I'm going to be honest, I vaped through both my pregnancies but kept the nicotine very low to the point of it almost not being there, it was just enough to keep the edge off. I was honest with all my obs, even when I met with a high risk ob, they all said it was fine as long as I kept it low. My second baby came full term and 39+4 and was a healthy 7lb 2oz 20.5in!
what was the lowest you were able to get? Thank you for commenting
I make my own so I'm not sure how low it was but I think they make 5mg, you might be able to find lower
Speak to your midwife, my sister is a nurse and because she already was highly stressed they told her to cut down on the nicotine till she got herself down to 0% nicotine. Because stress is really bad for your body too, so check with your midwife and be open and honest because how you feel is important and they should be impartial. Good luck 👍
Yeah I went down (eventually) to 0% nicotine but it wasn’t until about 20 weeks
I'm 39 weeks and some days, I'm also extremely stressed out to the max and vaping calms me down. I've been vaping most of the third trimester and my baby is okay. I think you'd be fine vaping esp if your appts keep telling you your baby is okay. The first trimester is where damage can really be done to the fetus so I'd definitely try to quit. It doesn't always happen, people smoke cigarettes the entire pregnancy and their baby's are fine I don't see why vaping wouldn't be similar.
I know that wasn't exactly helpful but just know your not alone.
thank you for your honesty. I’m definitely going to try not to, but it’s nice to know I’m not alone
My girl is 4 months and I vapid through my pregnancy but was only 6mg nicotine, every midwife app my readings was always 0 so there wasn't enough actually getting in my system, baby was born 39+1 at 7lb 1oz perfectly healthy, I'm not condoning it in anyway but it's very hard to stop and I tried multiple times deffo cut down alot though and since baby been born I haven't used it at all, makes me feel sick now
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