Woman Smoked 3,500 Cigarettes during Pregnancy

This young mother would be no different from the millions of other young moms in the world, but there is just one shag. She not only smoked during her pregnancy, but also invented her own theory why tobacco smoke could be useful for an unborn baby.

The British TV channel BBC3 regularly broadcasts the program which is called Misbehaving Mums To Be. A kind of “anti-record” in popularity among all the latest participants belongs, undoubtedly, to a 20-year-old Charlie Wilcox and her baby daughter Lilly, who is only 14 weeks.

The editors of the TV program have found Charlie Wilcox in a small English town of Rainham, Kent.

The “unique” young mother told the entire country that during the first six months of pregnancy she had continued to smoke from 15 to 20 cigarettes every day, and only during the last three months she had reduced the number of cigarettes to 5 per day. However, a total number of cigarettes which had been poisoning her and the future child during the period of 9 months was more than 3,500 cigarettes.

The young mother also told that the doctors who had been watching her during the pregnancy had measured the level of carbon monoxide in her blood, as one of the combustion products of tobacco, and found that there had been 6 times more carbon monoxide in the body of the pregnant Charlie than acceptable for the normal fetal development.

However, the strange (if not to say more) mother claimed that oxygen deprivation that the body of her daughter had suffered from had a positive effect. According to Charlie, it had stimulated the heart of the baby, making it to “pump” more blood to supply the tissues with oxygen.

Charlie Wilcox, who has been smoking since 14 years, has also provided the program with an “irrefutable” argument in favor of her theory.

She said that one of her friends, who had also been smoking from school age, learned that she was pregnant and immediately gave up cigarettes. However, during the 4th month she suffered a miscarriage, as the unreasonable young mother explained the viewers.

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