Pregnancy can be one of the happiest moments in a woman’s life. Protecting the miracle of life growing inside is of utmost importance. The unborn child is at the mercy of the mother and environment around him.

Unfortunately some women fall prey to drug abuse. This poses serious risks not only to the mother herself, but to her unborn child.

The use of drugs during pregnancy has an effect on the baby because the medications and drugs travel through her bloodstream and pass through the placental barrier. These drugs have side effects that include birth defects, prematurity, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), damage to the neurological system, low birth weight and other developmental disabilities following birth.

Not only do the drugs have a negative effect on child but mothers who abuse their body using drugs often run the risk of poor nutrition which not only starves her body of necessary nutrition but it also starves her unborn child of nutrients as well. More