{"id":6,"date":"2004-07-29T16:37:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-29T22:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2004-07-29T16:37:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-29T22:37:04","slug":"how-smoking-can-affect-a-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/29\/how-smoking-can-affect-a-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"How smoking can affect a pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/\">The Boston Globe<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The nicotine in cigarettes may cause constrictions in blood vessels of the umbilical cord and uterus and thereby decrease the amount of oxygen available to the fetus.<\/p>\n<p>Babies of mothers who smoked during pregnancy have lower birth weights, a leading cause of infant deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of pregnancy complications, premature delivery, stillbirth, and sudden infant death syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is women who quit before becoming pregnant reduce many of these risks to that of women who&#8217;ve never smoked.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/globe\/living\/articles\/2004\/07\/29\/how_smoking_can_affect_a_pregnancy\/\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Globe reports: The nicotine in cigarettes may cause constrictions in blood vessels of the umbilical cord and uterus and thereby decrease the amount of oxygen available to the fetus. Babies of mothers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}