Pregnancy Intervention

Fri. Jun 19, 2009 | 5:43 AM

They might be pregnant, but they're still addicts.

With the addition of a little one to the family, the party might be over, but the adventure is just beginning -- but pregnancy isn't stopping these soon-to-be-mommies from indulging. And we don't mean indulging in a hot fudge sundae with a side of pickles -- we mean in smoking, drinking, even drugs! Along with a panel of experts, Tyra takes on a pregnancy intervention to help these women change their lives -- as well as the lives of their unborn babies.

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The women whose baby licked drugs off the table was just too much i cried when i saw this im preganant and when i was younger i got taken away from my mom because she wouldnt stop doing and selling drugs.it ruined my life i got sent to a home where people raped and abused me. i hope that doesnt happen to her babies. but some moms dont think about how it hurts the kids. i stopped doing everything when i found out i was pregnant. they have no reason to do what they do i was an addict and stopped because i love my child

Posted by BonnieBowen 06/19/09 4:53 PM

Dannille (the pregnant bullemic) looked like she was truly sympathetic and was looking to get help from Tyra and I felt like the psychologist jumped down her throat. I felt her reaction was completely out of line. If she was unsympathetic and didnt care about the life of her baby I can see the psychologist having a reaction like that, but when someone is crying and asking for help, it is at this time that you reach out your hand and help. Especially since the person you are dealing with is already in a mental state of poor self-esteem and frail frame of mind. As a psychologist myself, I have seen what rigid practice can do to fragile clients and I assure it is exactly the opposite of what the client needs. All in all, the psychologist shouldnt have been so harsh when someone is obviously reaching out for honest help.

Posted by Sara 06/19/09 3:51 PM

I cant help but cry while watching this along with frustration. I use to smoke and quit when i found out i was pregnant after my first pregnancy, but unfortunately miscarried. I am pregnant for the 2nd time and try my mest to eliminate anything that may harm the development of my child. I also have a frien that cannot have choldren due to cancer. Its not fair to see these woman hurt their children on opportunities were talen from my friend and I. Its not fair.

Posted by Vannesa 06/19/09 3:49 PM

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I am now 9 months pregnant but when this show aired a few months ago i still smoked. watching this show made me realize what i was really doing to my baby and myself. Before watching this show i was not planning on quiting smoking. i am sooooo glad i did. Thank you tyra for the gift that you have given me.

Posted by tracey 06/19/09 3:41 PM

I am pregnant with my 3rd child and started smoking 6 or 7 months before i got pregnant. i started smoking because i was going through alot of emotional problems in my life. my boyfriend at that time got murdered in november 2008 and i started smoking twice as much as i was before that incident. i planed on quiting until that happened after that it seemed impossible. I got pregnant in february 2009 and i have been trying to quit i was smoking a pack a day before pregnancy and now i smoke maybe 4/5 cigarettes a day. i'm actually posting this while im watching the show. i thought about the things being said in the show and it has made me want to quit much more than before, my doctors havent really said much about the effects of smoking during pregnancy. my two other children have ashtma and i didnt smoke, but there father did. i know how bad the ashtma can be. i dont want to hurt my baby and i now know the effects of smoking and i am going to quit as of now. I dont think these women should be put down they just need to be taught the results of there addiction and watching the show taught me.

Posted by stacy 06/19/09 2:48 PM

Well I know what some of them r going throw. i am almost 3 moth pregnant and its hard to stop smoking. Right now i am tring to stop but i have people that is smoking around me and my boyfriend smokes to. he does not try to help me but just keep telling me that i need to stop and only gives me two cigarettes a day but most of the time he wont. He has his friends smoke around me but most of his friends don't know that i am going to have this baby yet. I would like to stop and i am tiring and i am slowly stopping.

Posted by Kessley White 06/19/09 2:38 PM

These women really make me sick. I am a mother of a year old little girl and My daughter was born with a hemmorage in her brain. The first questions the doctors asked me was if i did any drugs ect while I was pregnant. I was a smoker but quit as soon as i found out I was pregnant. It makes me sick because these women are purposely trying to harm their unborn children. Here I am a mother doing nothing wrong and taking good care of myself while pregnant giving birth to my daughter and a day and half after she was born she started having seizures. My daughter was away from me for two weeks in the NICU. I was a basket case! They have no idea what its like to watch your child be poked and prodded with wires all over their helpless bodies. Thankfully my daughter didnt have to have any surgery and recoved and is now 100% perfect! I cannot imagine doing these things while pregnant. Some people are just not fit to be parents! When you become pregnant your life is not about you anymore, its all about your baby.

Posted by Carrie age 21 06/19/09 1:55 PM

that i so sad, you know if you really loved and knew what it was doing to the baby you would stop smoking. its not that hard to stop smoking when your pregnant, i know because i have done it twice that just kills me to hear that they are still smoking. i know that its hard because you always want to pick one up just because its a habit. i know but if your feeling sick when u smoke you think that you would stop because nobody likes to get sick.NO MATTER WHAT IF YOU TRULEY LOVE AND WANT TO TAKE CARE OF THE BABY YOU WOULDSTOP JUST FOR YOUR CHILD..........

Posted by Brandy 06/19/09 1:49 PM

These women make me sick! They don't deserve to enjoy motherhood when they would do that to there own innocent children!

Posted by slc 06/19/09 1:08 PM

Tyra treated those girls they way the needed to be treated. I someone treated me that way when I was pregnant mabey my baby would not have so many problems today.TUFF LOVE IS IMPORTANT!!!!!! If only this show was on when I was pregnant.

Posted by Anonymous 06/19/09 12:41 PM

I am a 21 year old college student. I am also 9 months pregnant with my first child. I worry about bills and finishing school and even how I am going to balance motherhood and my education. My pregnancy was unplanned. That being said, there is no excuse for harming your child. Any woman who uses worry and stress as an excuse for harming her child needs to get a grip and grow up. The day I found out I was pregnant I stopped drinking and partying and all of my bad eating habits. It was hard and I miss my free lifestyle from time to time, but having a healthy child is much more important. I work with children with mental handicaps and they are wonderful people, but their lives will never be easy. I feel tremendous sadness for any woman who dooms her child to a life like this. When you drink and smoke and especially use drugs during your pregnancy that is exactly what you are doing.

Posted by Jessica 06/19/09 12:33 PM

I just watched this show and I am really confused... the women who smoked were treated worse than the woman who was using drugs. You told the woman on drugs that it wasn't her fault, she was just an addict...but it seemed like the women who smoked cigarettes were verbally attacked like it was totally their fault. As a person who has been afflicted by both, I can say that both conditions are addicts, so both should have been treated the same way. It seems like you couldn't raise much sympathy for the smokers. I don't understand this behavior from you because you are usually one of the most tolerant people I know, of course this is based on watching you on your tv shows. It is just as hard to quit smoking, ask any ex-smoker and they will tell you that they wake up every day and if they could they would light up at the drop of a hat. I smoke every night in my dreams, so I hope you would treat everyone with an addiction the same way.

Posted by Marsha 06/19/09 12:21 PM

Alot of people smoke but everybody body is different.I DON'T smoke or drink i want a healthy baby. I know how it is to lose a child, i blamed myself for that. So i think everybody should stop drugs and think about there baby if they want a healthy one. I do. when u have ur child u can do whatever.

Posted by crystal 06/19/09 12:14 PM

If having a live child inside a woman can't make her quit smoking, I don't know what can. It's true, different people have different severities of addictions. Though smoking can be a hard habit to break, one must know why s/he smokes- is it a social problem, addiction to nicotine, stress reliever... If a mother-to-be cannot drop the habit, she could atleast resort to ELECTRIC CIGARETTES. They have no smoke, no tobacco, and no tar. If it is a nicotine addiction, these cigarettes can have different amounts of nicotine in them, including no nicotine. Though this still provides a controlled amount of nicotine (a stimulant) into a person, it doesn't include the harmful contents of traditional cigarettes. I'm in no place to judge these mothers, but this is just another option beside the nicotine gum and patches, because some people get addicted to the habit of having a cigarette in their hand. If the habit is impossible to break, this is atleast a healthier option for both the mothers, their babies, and others.

Posted by M A 06/19/09 11:57 AM

OMG how could that mother choose OXY adn other drugs over her child?!? OMG i am so pissed off what a low life "mother" Cigs are bad drinking is bad drugs are bad and ALL i believe SHOULD STOP!!! People judge teen mothers because they are young and "children" themselves but as for these grown woman to be this selfish?!? PATHETIC!! I am a young mother i am 22 and my son will be almost 4 and the day i found out i was preg my smoking and drinking was DONE!!!

Posted by Megan 06/19/09 11:57 AM