1) Hello Caroline,

Absolutely right you are. Please give your friend a rough scolding from my side, to mess up her child's health with that nonsense. Every medic nowadays should know that and how cigarette smoke during pregnancy harms the poor worm, not to speak of worse things...

I bet she will have symptoms herself from that habit already.
One trick from one homoeopath who got a number of patients for treatment who had no idea that their smoking that stuff had any relation to their current symptoms which they were seeking help for:
He read them or made them read typical symptoms from the Materia Medica for ... ( covering the header, so they could not see what it was ), and after they had been surprised and confirmed it described them, he disclosed the remedy:
'starts with "C" ...

- And note that in a small worm that effect is multiplied of course.

The initial problem may be to convince your friend that she has quite a problem herself, both physical and then psychological; because with heavy smoking that stuff, and not giving a damn for her own offspring, it is not just a small not-so-optimal habit any more, but a serious condition she herself is in. But people then tend to harbour the illusion that
(a) it is nothing really, and
(b) they could in principle stop it anytime, since it is their own free decision, they think ...

Treating anyone of the two until the habit has gone does not make any sense.
Because the child would get kicked again and again, even after birth, via milk and smoke from the air.
And any homoeo-remedy will probably NOT work anyway, because of the drug which she is inhaling, as it is going to block the action.

I described a case with that effect in one other thread
( -> "Need help", started by one "Shirl" on Feb 12th; my post No.2), towards the end ),
which you can read if interested; 'was an interesting observation, and the homoeopath who reported it is a very good one indeed, so I rely on his reports.

[ 03. March 2003, 18:49: Message edited by: panthera-non-onca ]