Drug Test while Pregnant

[beachguy in thongs]

If you think that smoking weed while you're pregnant is okay...think again.

Babies are meant to be born without Melatonin and have to rely on their Mother's Breast Milk to get it, the first 3 months, until their Pineal starts producing it naturallly, through Amino Acids.

Smoking Weed raises your Melatonin Levels 4,000%, two hours after smoking a joint.

This is off of Melatonin.com:

Should certain people avoid it?

Yes. "Those include women who are pregnant or nursing (since no one knows how excessive exposure to the hormone might affect a fetus or infant); people with severe allergies or autoimmune diseases (melatonin could exacerbate such conditions by stimulating the immune system); people with immune-system cancers such as lymphoma or leukemia (for the same reason), and healthy children (who already produce it in abundance). Women trying to conceive should also think twice about taking the hormone, since high doses can act as a contraceptive." As with any substance introduced into your body, if you have a medical condition you should always consult your physician first before taking melatonin.

beachguy in thongs Reviewed by beachguy in thongs on 10-29-2005. Drug Test while Pregnant I am 17 weeks pregnant and have to take a drug test soon. I haven't smoked in 2 weeks now. Im wondering if it takes longer to get clean while pregnant and if there is anything I can do to get clean faster. Rating: 5

[stopmybreath]

An article on a marijuana site.
SMOKE = BAD
Doesn't matter if it's from a cig, pipe, or forest fire.
If you need to take drug test's while your pregnant, that already says something about you.

my best friend is pregnant and her doctor told her that it doesn't hurt the baby at all to smoke weed in moderation.

[nitemarehippiegirl]

I'm sorry that's just crazy. I am no md but my common sense tells me-- it's not Okay! If you need to smoke more than you care about your baby's well being, well, that's just sad! I am a woman and I am a mother, as soon as I knew I was pregnant I stopped smoking. Even now, I'm cautious about not smoking around my son and keeping our house well ventilated. It's cool that you want to smoke, just take a little break for the sake of your child. please.

[birdgirl73]

I completely agree. If indeed a physician really did tell a woman that "it doesn't hurt the baby at all to smoke weed in moderation" (and I'm not sure I believe a qualified doctor would say that), he's a fool at best. Doctors don't fully know how weed affects babies in utero because no one is irresponsible enough to do any large-scale tests on pregnant women. The small studies and tests that have been done seem persuasive that women should abstain from smoking while they're pregnant and lactating. That period doesn't last forever, but sometimes mothers are so self-centered that they can't put their own grass use aside temporarily to benefit their babies.

There are plenty of people who justify weed and alcohol use during pregnancy to try and make it OK. Just as there are plenty of non-pregnant people who justify meth use and various criminal behavior of other kinds in the same way. Just because they can justify it for themselves doesn't make it OK--and doesn't make it right for their babies. The lucky pregnant weed smokers have babies with no apparent negative effects. But why would someone risk that in the first place?

[ronjohn420]

please, be mature smokers......... YES POT IS NOT NECESSARLY BAD DURING PREG. but if you are smoking it, you cause the pot to create over 400 extra chemicals during its combustion into smoke (one of these chem. is proplyene glycol which is found in prestone antifreeze) and those 400 are harmful to you and that child....... Any kind of smoke is bad, "its not like its MAGICAL POT and no bad can ever come from it"

in theory.... youre putting your child in a smokey room and youre forcing them to take the chemicals into their body

CANT YOU SEE!!!!!!!! its like taking light or oxygen from a plant in veg. state, you cant tell anything is wrong, but the bud is usually affected quality wise and you see problems later down the line...

its the same here.

and all of you who are "cheering her on" are terrible and have no room to make that childs decsion up for them

and NO this is not my 2 cents, its a FACT

[jlsgirl]

It is your choice to smoke or not to smoke, personally I wouldn't because I think it is a VERY selfish thing to do. You are only thinking of your self in that situation. Let's just think about this.... Say you have your baby and something is wrong, they don't know why or what it came from, I think you will feel terrible for the rest of your life that you couldn't put it down for 9 months! Personally I am DISGUSTED!

[MsStrawberrySwisher]

Even though it's your choice to smoke or not, plz give your baby the "choice" to come out healthy. At least use a vaporizor. I watched discovery health channel and they had the mother smoke, did you know on the ultrasound screen showed the baby and her heart stop moving for 7 seconds? Lungs are barely developed. If you don't believe me, look up discovery health channel archives and you'll find that episode.

Smoke is smoke, regardless if it's from ciggs, weed, crack or smog. I'm a female with a 6 year old and a chronic smoker. 10 month dry spell did not kill me. Even till this day I don't smoke around her. Smoke plays a big role in developing children. Why do you think smog is bad?

But anyway, at least you are informed. Good luck for you and the baby.

[MsStrawberrySwisher]

Oh I wanted to add this, to at least answer your question:

What is the test for? You are in a delicate situation, so the usual detox methods we say on this site might not work (water dillution, xtra vitamins, niacin, etc), most of all might harm the development baby. All I can say is use the substition method (using a sample from a friend or ordering synthenic urine). Make sure the urine is of right temperture (94F-100F) and your good.

[Chillum1887]

put your baby up for adoption and give him a fighting chance at life because obviously you are too unfit and irresponsible to raise a child if your biggest concern is passing a drug test while PREGNANT. If not, thanks for producing another broken-homed, birth defected, welfare raised baby bred for crime; our prisons are full enough as it is and we don't need your future offspring in there too.

Maybe i'm being too 'closed minded' and making too many generalizations about this, but the abortion laws were developed specificly for people like you.

[Lolo69]

If you are 17 weeks pregnant, you should be getting over the morning sickness. (My mom had morning sickness in the afternoon with me.) Saltine crackers and ginger ale or any non-caffeinated bubbly drink work just as well. Why, I've helped many a female pregnant co-worker get over morning sickness on the job with this remedy, and they've thanked me for it.

Your doctor is fucked. The first trimester is when the baby's brain is being formed. Any type of narcotic (booze, pot, coke, Tylenol, etc.) can interfere with brain development.

I had a dear friend who drank alcohol the first weeks of her pregnancy (not knowing yet that she was pregnant). Her baby was born with just a brain stem and died. It was horrible. Thankfully, she went on to have two more, beautiful, healthy children.

This is an extreme, but abusing any kinds of drugs, even OTC pain relievers, can lead to other developmental disabilities in your child.

I have a friend who is currently pregnant and loves weed, but she is abstaining until her baby is born in December. We plan to have ourselves a big ol' weed party then.