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And Mrs.Mom, question...if u would "take marijuana over prescription drugs ANY day" and ur doctor is "completely fine" with it, then why didn't u go outside and have a small toot for pain relief instead of getting an epidural? Surely u realize an epi is a prescription medication, with side effects.

Idk, I just find it interesting how much u preach that chemicals and prescription medications are sooooo bad, they have side effects, dont take them, ur all brainwashed, blah blah...yet its the first thing u turn to when in pain. Hypocrite.

Wow, this question blew up outta nowhere. Don't trust prescription medication but by all means feel free to take something grown in a basement or backyard, by a complete stranger, then laced with God knows what and sold to u on a dirty street corner by some wanna-be gansta thug...all becuz the FDA found evidence of side effects on Zofran. Excellent advice! What a f*cking joke!

Seneka, please dont be this stupid (which I know u arent). It is NOT "fine in the early months when lungs have yet to develop." Someone needs to educate themselves on just how early the upper and lower respiratory tract starts developing. Week 4, embryonic stage. What an ignorant way to justify and up sell smoking pot while pregnant.

Stick with what ur doctor suggests. Canadian doctors are NOT ok with preg women smoking pot to relieve nausea any more than American doctors are, I call BS on that one!

To provide you with some insight (or education). Here's a link regarding Zofran. Which is REGULARLY prescribed to pregnant woman as being safe to treat nausea/vomiting in pregnant women.

http://www.fertilitycenter.com/fertility_cares_blog/fda-warns-against-zofran-use-in-pregnancy/

FDA approves. Then years later WARNS. Do the research yourself and know what is safe during pregnancy. I would take marijuana over prescription drugs ANY day.

I should note I live in Canada (thank gawd)

There are NO studies that can definitively say what causes ADD or ADHD in children and certainly NONE that will tell you it can happen in the whom. I'm educated on this topic and therefore won't waste my time on someone who believes everything they hear on ABC news with Diane Sawyer each night. Most of the reports given to us on the news are baseless and have no validity. They don't provide a long enough research period nor do they cover enough of the population. I smoked only early on in my pregnancy. So drug testing would have come up neg for this mama. It is fine in the early months when lungs have yet to develop. Here's something interesting for you Jessic0319. Zofran is also linked to ADD in children and has NOT been proven safe. They just haven't found that it is linked (yet) to any health concerns in pregnant women. Zofran is a chemical and a medication.

Anyhow, I get that the uneducated mind can't rap their head around the idea Cannabis isn't just a

Keep in mind that they do screen you for drugs when you go into the hospital to deliver, so unless you want social services showing up at your door, I wouldn't take any sort of street drug or abuse any prescription pills. I had a false + for benzoids when I was pregnant with my first. Dealing with social services & clearing my name was NOT how I wanted to spend my first days with my daughter.

I would not recommend using street drugs to help, NOT that you were going to as it sounds completely silly!! I just disagree!! There are a lot of things that can happen to your baby from smoking it while pregnant, and people always think as I know a lot of people that have smoked marijuana while pregnant (which I think is disgusting) and think "my baby was born fine and healthy" because of their appearance at birth and the fact that they look normal. It's not about that, the main problems are wdevelopmental delays and behavioral problems like ADD and ADHD, which obviously don't show up until later when your child is trying to learn!! It causes problems to the brain which are not visible when baby is born but are later on in life. A lot of young people think now a days that because their child appears fine that they are okay and the marijuana they smoked during pregnancy did nothing to their baby, which they tell other young people who also will smoke it thinking that it has n

I find it interesting how many are all for the prescription drugs but anti the all natural. Brainwashed.

I was severely sick for the first six months of my pregnancy. I went days without eating at all. Or Id' eat a bowl of soup then vomit. I was also taking 4 anti sickness pills for pregnancy and they didn't work at all. A MINUTE amount of marijuana would help alleviate the sickness so you can eat. I ended up telling my doc I used it to help with the sickness because I was slightly worried and he said it's completely fine. That it does help with this. Of course I wasn't sitting there puffing an entire joint but I had one small toot when I needed to eat. I"d rather have a quick puff (only take ONE haul) so I can eat rather than take prescription drugs. Just my opinion and not one many share I know, but to me, this is safer than over the counter meds.

I'm silly sick with all my pregnancies and they say it's worse with each one. Dr's don't hesitate to put me on Cyclizine after I landed in hospital with dehydration last time. Been on it since 6 weeks and still am although I'm down to twice a day now.
Hydration is more important then food so experiment with fluids, I found I couldn't keep just water down so I drank watered down OJ and flat diet lemonade. Try to take supplements before you sleep as its easier to sleep through the nausea.
hope this helps and that you feel better soon.