The gift of being a mother is the most beautiful and joyous moment for a woman in her lifetime; the intensity and the dreams to raise a child with proper care and love requires a lot of perseverance and pain.
A woman needs to sacrifice a lot of ill cravings during the tenure of her pregnancy so that her baby remains healthy and wholesome. During and after the pregnancy phase, women generally feel depressed and anxious.
There have been many ‘Perinatal Depression’ cases over the years. Most of the women from all around the world report of nausea and other pain related to pregnancy and post-birth signs and conditions. The condition of pain and nausea makes them at times use marijuana in small and sometimes in considerable quantities to calm their nerves. Marijuana is still considered an illicit drug banned in many parts of India. But the usage increases with every passing day because of so many medicinal purposes as well.
Experts have shown their concern over the fact that smoking weed during pregnancy is not very advisable due to its effect on the fetus. Women believe that due to medicine qualities in the drug, ingesting marijuana is not harmful, especially when consumed in good form such as brownies, cake, etc.
No matter even if the drug transforms into a much consumable item, the harmful precipitated outcome won’t reduce. According to the research done by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), marijuana will be equally detrimental even though consumed in different forms.
How does Weed (Marijuana) affect a pregnant woman?
An article posted by The Medical News Today wrote about an expert physician Dr. Heather Bradshaw’s opinion about the ingestion of marijuana. Dr. Bradshaw says that the physicians are on the edge of disposition about the risk of exposure to THC & CBD on the brain of an embryo.
Dr. Bradshaw believes that after so many years, it is still too early to state the effects as perceived appropriately. The expert talks explicitly about marijuana’s adversary could lead to Schizophrenia and motor functioning developments.
Although most of the time, beings use weed to fall into a state of numbness. But this could lead towards loss of memory, inability to perceive colours as the way they do, various sensations, and incompetency to problem-solving.
There are reportedly two risk factors related to the ingestion of marijuana by a pregnant woman:
- Studies have indicated a significant proportion of women consuming marijuana during the tenure of their pregnancy gave birth to low weight children. The report was more precise in specific associations with a low level of oxygen supply in these women and the inability to breathe, which led to other outpouring complications as well.
- It is difficult to separate the tobacco effects of consuming marijuana. Moreover, tobacco leads to many complications during pregnancy; that is the reason smoking leads to so many stillbirth cases in pregnant women. Marijuana could cause about a 2.3 times higher rate of risk in stillbirth children.
Experts and doctors have shared their thoughts on how the contemporary use of marijuana has no research to prove its harmful effects on a pregnant woman. The reason seems appropriate to support the inability to conduct the survey.
Conducting research would mean asking pregnant women to consume marijuana. Since the effects are still in the dark, it could lead to adverse consequences for the unborn child. It isn’t appropriate to put a child’s health and survival into risk, and with this sole aim, research still exceeds the very boundary of welfare.
Suggestion
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) equates the harmful substances in smoking weed as well as consuming it as an edible. CDC says that edible contains an equal amount of active THC as the vaper does.
Patients who are undergoing Chemotherapy are likely to take marijuana to cure their nausea, as reported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
So, if you are expecting and have morning sickness, it is best to get advice from your consultant than ingesting marijuana for curing nausea because you are not going to like the consequences of the same.
