Pregnancy is a time when a woman has to change herself for the better. She is now responsible for a life that cannot yet speak for itself. For this reason, some of the aspects of her lifestyle may have to change. Only reason being that her unborn child's health depends on the choices that she makes, from what she eats to if she chooses to continue smoking or not. All the choices that a mother to be makes greatly affects her unborn child and his or her health in one way or another.
If your lifestyle includes heavy partying, you may not be ready to become a parent just yet. Are you ready to give up the 2am parties for 2am feedings? Once you are pregnant, smoking and drinking alcohol can dramatically effect your baby's growth and development. Also using illegal drugs while pregnant can cause mental retardation, infant addiction, and learning problems in your baby's future. The worst-case scenario is you could have a miscarriage or your baby could die after delivery if your partying lifestyle does not stop.
Promiscuous behavior is another problem with new parents. The worst thing for a mom to realize is that she does not know her fathered her child. Say that you do go out partying all the time and are having unprotected sex. First of all, you are opening yourself up to a plethora of STD's and disease. Then you become pregnant. You do not know who the father is because you were having sex with one guy on Friday night and another on Saturday. Some women are lucky and through the haze of their partying, they figure out who the dad is, but then what if he does not want anything to do with you or the baby? There is another problem.
This becomes a time where you do not want to become depressed or angry and take it out on your body. Your unborn child did not ask to be here and now you must be the responsible party. If you continue, drinking and smoking your baby can have serious health problems and birth defects. If you continue to have unprotected sex with partners whose history is unknown, then you run into a world where you and your baby may contract an STD or AIDS. Pregnancy is a serious issue and a blessing. It should be treated as such and new moms to be need to take care of themselves, get all the required prenatal care, and cut back on their lifestyles if their activities, in any way, harm their unborn child.
