One of the most common bad habits today is smoking. Many readily recognize the fact that smoking with breastfeeding is absolutely contraindicated. Despite all the prohibitions and warnings of specialists, most women cannot completely, and many even partially get rid of this harmful passion. Based on this, it is worthwhile to understand this problem in more detail and try to consider all possible consequences of smoking during breastfeeding. 
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What happens in the mother's body?
Nicotine can negatively affect the infant, first of all, with direct smoking in its presence, when the baby begins to inhale all the dangerous substances, as well as when, in the process of a detrimental habit, nicotine begins to actively enter the mother's blood, penetrating into the milk. Fearing such milk, the crumble immediately gets all chemicals dangerous for its fragile organism.
Many studies were confirmed by the fact that smoking during breastfeeding significantly reduces the amount of milk produced by the body for a child. In the process of tobacococating a hormone prolactin, with the help of which the milk generation occurs, several times reduces its action. Especially smoking with breastfeeding is dangerous at night, since at this time there is an increased production of the hormone prolactin. Nicotine is also able to significantly reduce the Mother's milk content of vitamin C, which is very important for the immune system of the kid. 
What could be the consequences for the infant?
It is worth understanding the main devastating consequences for a child from the smoking of the mother during breastfeeding and identify the reason for the refusal of this dangerous habit:
- the first thing that the powerful influence of nicotine has, so it is on the nervous system of Karapuz. It can be noted that when the mother's tobacococci during breastfeeding, the crumbs begin to manifest an increased degree of excitability and irritation. Subsequently, the kid may have a bad appetite and a restless sleep;
- a tendency to allergies and pulmonary diseases, such as asthma, croup, bronchitis, pneumonia. Also, smoking mothers with breastfeeding increases the likelihood to manifest such a disease like lung cancer;
- mother's tobacocco during breastfeeding also increases the risk of sudden death of the baby at an early age;
- the likelihood of the intestinal disease in the child is high. Smoking during breastfeeding can cause colic for crumbs, as well as other different disorders associated with the gastrointestinal tract;
- nicotine is also addictive not only in the mother, but also in the kid. Therefore, subsequently, it is possible to notice the pattern that children have children already at an early age begin to show a tendency to a detrimental habit.
Rules that need to be guided
For those who, nevertheless, could not overcome the tendency to smoking with breastfeeding, it is necessary to at least follow some rules in dealing with the child:
- refrain from tobacco in the presence of a child;
- before feeding, it is necessary to observe the gap with the abstinence from smoking at 2-3 hours;
- with increased dependence on nicotine, it is worth following 5 cigarettes per day;
- mothers should be given high attention to its diet. It must be maximally full;
- it is also worth drinking liquids as much as possible, since water is capable of carrying out harmful substances much faster from the body;
- after tobacocoine, it is necessary to thoroughly wash your hands and mouth thoroughly.
These rules only to some extent are able to protect the child from negative consequences, but do not forget that the risk still remains. Therefore, all mothers should think primarily about the health of their children, which is largely more valuable than the manifestation of their own desires.