Worried about failing drugs test
So before I became pregnant I was a heavy smoker of 15 years smoking around 12 grams a week, I haven’t smoked in 3 months since I found out I’m pregnant but had a really horrible day 3 days ago and went to my friends and had 2 tiny pulls of the smallest joint you’ve ever seen and had an appointment today and didn’t realise they’d drugs test me so now I’m really worried that I’ll fail my drugs test and that something bad will happen like they’ll take my baby away from me (I live in England) I honestly feel so bad about it anyway what does everything think the chances are of my urine test coming up positive and if it does will it be high enough that they’ll get socials involved? I did tell her I smoked heavily for 15 years and I’ve googled it and it said that my test could have still come up positive even if I hadn’t had those 2 pulls and when I did google it said that it should come out of my urine in that time anyway but I’m so worried it’s not even funny I don’t want to lose my baby over 2 tiny pulls of a joint or be deemed a bad mum because of it like I’ve tried so hard to not smoke at all and due to stress that’s been really difficult please can some other mums just give me there opinion and what they think may or may not happen sorry for the long rant
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Hey! I was in a similar situation. Now almost 5 weeks PP and honestly they dont care as much as you think! Your baby won't be taken away from you for a couple tokes. My first and I think second test came back positive but its because theres no set amount of time it stays in your system for. Pregnancy is rough at the best of times but you'll be okay. The health visitor even said to me while pregnant that of I were to smoke again after giving birth that no one would be involved as long as the child was safe and happy. Hope this helps!
Girl, if I was you, I would just tell them the truth. I told them the truth with my first child. I told him that I used to smoke and I smoked weed till my first scan due to me not believing that I was actually pregnant and once I saw that I had a baby inside of me. I completely stopped smoking, but I feel like it’s mostly the concern of the oxygen that you’re giving your child. Xx
If they bring it up, just say that it must be from the past because you were heavy smoker, but recently you have not been smoking because when they do the test, it doesn’t exactly tell you when you smoked and sometimes we stay in your system for quite awhile so you should be fine
As long as you’re honest they’re actually very easy about it. I smoked in and off in pregnancy but always timed it so I had a clear test. They appreciate when you tell them the truth. It did lead to me having social workers (on top of mental health stuff) but they actually have been very useful - even managed to get a free basenett package from them!
You’ll only get in trouble if you lie and say you havnt smoked when you have and they catch it. But even then the one off shouldn’t be too bad
They dont drug test you in England!
I was honest about smoking during my pregnancy and they did advise me to stop but honestly didnt care and seemed understanding of why I did x
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