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Did you mom smoke or drink during her pregnancy?

Did she take tranquilizers or whatever were big for housewives decades ago?

by Anonymousreply 18July 9, 2025 10:42 PM

My mom smoked. I was born a month early, weighing 5 pounds, but with no noticeable deficits.

by Anonymousreply 1July 9, 2025 5:14 PM

My mother, who I can rarely remember her without having a cigarette lit, claimed she quit while she was pregnant with me. So while I didn't get much nicotine in utero, I received a constant supply from my birth until I left for college as I was the only one in my family that didn't smoke. Hate it.

by Anonymousreply 2July 9, 2025 5:16 PM

Yes, she smoked two packs a day. When I was 15, she got knocked up again. She tried to quit smoking, but went back after a couple of weeks. My dad and I were ok with it, because when she quit smoking, she turned into a vicious, verbally abusive monster.

by Anonymousreply 3July 9, 2025 5:20 PM

Pretty sure she was puffing a Kent in the delivery room.

by Anonymousreply 4July 9, 2025 5:24 PM

Nope.

by Anonymousreply 5July 9, 2025 5:25 PM

My mom said she quit smoking when she was pregnant, I guess it made her nauseated anyway. But she said the first time she felt me kick she was having dinner at Howard Johnson's with my dad and drinking a highball. My mom didn't drink much (usually, just socially) so I don't think it that big a deal.

by Anonymousreply 6July 9, 2025 6:01 PM

*it was

by Anonymousreply 7July 9, 2025 6:01 PM

Once in a blue moon.

by Anonymousreply 8July 9, 2025 6:39 PM

Can you afford NOT to smoke Marlboro mom?

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by Anonymousreply 9July 9, 2025 6:43 PM

During or after the abortion?

I've had more children pulled out of me than a burning orphanage.

by Anonymousreply 10July 9, 2025 6:45 PM

I don't remember

by Anonymousreply 11July 9, 2025 7:19 PM

I doubt my mom couldve given up even if she wanted. Sometimes i look at teens today and the look so healthy; im sure none of their moms smoked or drank during pregnancy. It must be a huge benefit.

by Anonymousreply 12July 9, 2025 7:25 PM

My mother didn't smoke. She probably had some wine now and then with dinner, but maybe not. She rarely drank any while we were growing up, usually when we had a visitor.

by Anonymousreply 13July 9, 2025 7:28 PM

She was a fitness freak and I believe her pregnancies were a punishment. She did state that smoking and drinking were punishments for being catholic or brown.

by Anonymousreply 14July 9, 2025 7:30 PM

My mother was drunk when she gave birth to me and also was a heavy smoker during her pregnancy. She also enjoyed dolls called "black beauties" and put Paragoric in my bottle until I stopped using one. Besides my addictions and mental illness, I turned out fine.

by Anonymousreply 15July 9, 2025 7:53 PM

My mother tried heroin the day I was conceived. She smoked all the time until she was in her 50s. I'm grateful I made it as long as I have, age 71.

by Anonymousreply 16July 9, 2025 10:04 PM

Both my parents had quit smoking by the time she was pregnant with me but she was taking the occasional Miltown and occasional white wine.

by Anonymousreply 17July 9, 2025 10:28 PM

Mom had a couple of glasses at the end of pregnancy with me. It was 35 years ago so apparently very limited intake at the end was said to be ok. I think I turned out okay. I left her basement by 22.

by Anonymousreply 18July 9, 2025 10:42 PM
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