Can Being a Crack Baby Effect Future Children?
Question by Lydia: Can being a crack baby effect future children?
My boyfriend’s mother smoked weed and crack when he was in the womb. When he was born he had a few side effects like muscle spasms but now the only thing he has that we know of is a constant high body temperature. We aren’t trying to conceive yet, but I’m wondering if his ability to have children now will be hard because of that, or if he most likely has a high chance of passing disabilities down to his children?
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Answer by antonio
Im a former doc and its less likely to happen unless drugs taken by ur freind if he did drugs or does then this could affect the babys life. Other wise if not its very low chance of child deffect
Answer by LORI
No. Anyone can have problems conceiving and anyone can have a child with a disability, but if that happens to you it will have nothing to do with your boyfriend being exposed to cocaine before birth.
Cocaine exposure doesn’t cause that type of problem, and all the fears about the health of kids who were exposed to cocaine were pretty exaggerated anyway. Cocaine is obviously bad for babies and can give them problems, but it doesn’t cause as many problems or as severe of problems as they thought it would during the crack epidemic in the 80s/90s. The whole “crack baby” thing was kind of overblown, most of those kids turned out normal.
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