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    During The Early Months of Pregnancy

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    Cocaine use during pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, premature birth, low birthweight, and fetal brain damage. Babies exposed to cocaine in utero may experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability and overreacting to stimuli after birth. Women are advised to stop cocaine use before becoming pregnant or delay pregnancy until they are sure they can avoid the drug completely throughout pregnancy to prevent these health risks and birth defects.

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    Cocaine use during pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, premature birth, low birthweight, and fetal brain damage. Babies exposed to cocaine in utero may experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability and overreacting to stimuli after birth. Women are advised to stop cocaine use before becoming pregnant or delay pregnancy until they are sure they can avoid the drug completely throughout pregnancy to prevent these health risks and birth defects.

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    Cocaine use during pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, premature birth, low birthweight, and fetal brain damage. Babies exposed to cocaine in utero may experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability and overreacting to stimuli after birth. Women are advised to stop cocaine use before becoming pregnant or delay pregnancy until they are sure they can avoid the drug completely throughout pregnancy to prevent these health risks and birth defects.

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    During The Early Months of Pregnancy

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    Cocaine use during pregnancy increases the risks of miscarriage, premature birth, low birthweight, and fetal brain damage. Babies exposed to cocaine in utero may experience withdrawal symptoms like irritability and overreacting to stimuli after birth. Women are advised to stop cocaine use before becoming pregnant or delay pregnancy until they are sure they can avoid the drug completely throughout pregnancy to prevent these health risks and birth defects.

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    During the early months of pregnancy, it may increase the risk of miscarriage.

    When the drug is used late in pregnancy, it may trigger premature labor. It also may cause an unborn baby to die or to have a stroke, which can result in irreversible brain damage. twice as likely to have a premature baby, More likely to have a low birth-weight baby and More likely to have babies born with smaller heads and smaller brains proportionate to body size. Cocaine use also may cause the placenta to pull away from the wall of the uterus before labor begins. This condition, placental abruption, can lead to extensive bleeding and can be fatal for both the mother and her baby. Beginning at birth, some exposed babies go through something similar to "withdrawal" from the drug. Many are very jittery and irritable, and startle and cry at the gentlest touch or sound. The birth defects and other problems caused by cocaine are completely preventable. The March of Dimes advises women who use cocaine to stop before they become pregnant or to delay pregnancy until they believe they can avoid the drug completely throughout the pregnancy

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