Most Americans know that it’s important for someone to take care of their health before getting pregnant and during pregnancy to increase their chance of having a healthy baby. Many people know, for ...

Smoking even one or two cigarettes a day in the months leading up to pregnancy or during pregnancy significantly increases the risk that the baby will have a severe health problem, new research shows.

Today we have Nurse Al Romeo from MotherToBaby Utah at the Utah Department of Health and Human Services with us to talk about smoking and marijuana use in pregnancy. What are some of the problems that ...

Smoking during pregnancy may increase your baby’s chances of developing a variety of medical complications. Some research suggests a possible link between smoking during pregnancy and autism spectrum ...

Cambridge researchers have found that women who smoke during pregnancy are 2.6 times more likely to give birth prematurely compared to non-smokers – more than double the previous estimate. The study, ...

A new study has found that exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy and actually smoking increase the risk of placental abruption, a complication that can be fatal to both parent and baby, to ...

Use of alcohol, cigarettes or certain drugs can contribute to the development of cleft lip in a child before birth. [Courtesy] Having a baby is a miraculous and a beautiful journey but any birth ...

Can smoking during pregnancy influence a child’s risk of obesity later in life? A new study led by a Washington State University (WSU) researcher suggests it might. More than 89% of children in the ...

Unprecedented progress in reducing the number of women smoking during pregnancy in England could be put at risk by NHS funding cuts, according to a UEA addiction expert. A new BMJ article, co-authored ...