High blood pressure is not good in any condition, and specifically during pregnancy as it’s effecting the health of mother as well as the unborn baby.

High blood pressure during pregnancy can because of the reason that mother has been suffering from it before pregnancy or might got it once she is pregnant, i.e. gestational hypertension. Whichever the cause of high blood pressure during pregnancy, it can cause low birth weight or premature delivery of the baby. More severe result can be the development of ‘Preeclampsia’, a sudden increase in blood pressure after the 20th week of pregnancy, which can be life-threatening for both mother and the unborn baby.

It’s crucial to treat blood pressure at this time either by the close monitoring of the baby and or lifestyle changes and certain medicines. In case of Preeclampsia, early delivery of the baby may become necessary.

Smoking during pregnancy doesn’t only effects your health, but also your baby’s. According to Dr Chris Steele, president GP, “If you’re planning to get pregnant the first thing you should do is give up the cigarettes. It does effect fertility but let’s say you become pregnant and you continue smoking, you’re inhaling smoke – more than 4,000 chemicals being inhaled into your body and those chemicals are reaching your baby as it’s developing,”.

He’s also of the opinion that 10 times more addictive than heroin. So, if you’re smoking during pregnancy you are subjecting your baby’s brain to a powerfully addictive drug, that will cause him many of the health problems from the very first day in this world.