Advice needed
Posting incognito as I’m just so embarrassed to admit this but need to say it out loud to start taking some accountability. I’m currently 27 weeks pregnant with my second baby. I’ve vaped for the last 12 years. I gave up the moment I got pregnant with my first baby and then started again when he was around 9 months old. I then became pregnant with my second baby around 6 months later (as planned) and gave up again the moment I found out. However, I gave into cravings when I was around 16 weeks pregnant after a stressful time and bought an over the counter vape. Told myself it was a one off but it wasn’t. I’ve now been vaping for the past 11 weeks in secret. I know over the counter ones are the worst as they have so much nicotine in. I’m finding it so hard to kick the habit and I think it’s worse that no one knows, especially not my husband or my midwife. I’ve told myself that this weekend is the end of it and I need to follow it through to have a remaining healthy 13 weeks of pregnancy. I’m not really sure why I’m posting this. Maybe someone can relate and reassure me that I’m not a completely awful mother. Or maybe I do actually need someone to tell me that I’m selfish and awful. Maybe I just need to say it out loud. I really don’t know.
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This advice might be totally useless and crap but I have always struggled with giving in to cravings. Sometimes if I 'can't be told' as such, I find that if I really research into what I'm doing until I scare myself or gross myself out on the way it affects my body and what it actually does to me each time then I can end up putting myself off that way? Worked for smoking, vaping, drinking too much, even eating meat for a while! Granted for me sometimes the affect would wear off after a while and I'd be back at square one but I'd just force myself to be bothered by the facts of it again and go down a Googling wormhole again until I put myself off... and rinse and repeat 😅
Whatever technique works for you, you can do this mama x
I was a smoker before getting pregnant. And gave up during pregnancy, but when things got stressful I switched to a 0mg nicotine vape. I was told that vaping didn't pose the same danger to baby as it doesnt restrict oxygen etc.
For me even though it had no nicotine in the ritual of using it helped me through stressful times.
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