Tag: Smoking During Pregnancy

New York: Children born to mothers who drank and smoked beyond the first three months of pregnancy have 12-fold increased risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), says a new study. SIDS is the sudden, unexplained, death of an infant under one year of age. Many studies have shown that the risk of SIDS is […]

London: Researchers have found that infants of mothers who smoke during early pregnancy appear to have a small increased risk of fractures during the first year of life. Many studies have found a link between smoking during pregnancy and growth problems in infants. But evidence of the impact of smoking during pregnancy on the bone […]