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Protecting a child is everyone's business
Pregnant women need the support of everyone they know to help them be smokefree. When family and friends also smoke, or smoke around a hapu woman, two things happen
- It is much harder for that woman to be successful in her efforts to protect her baby.
- The unborn baby gets a double whammy of smoke from the mother as well as smoke frome the whanau. Toxins cross her skin and also enter her lungs when she breathes in the second hand smoke of others.
Whanau champions
Te Awatea has a whanau support service built in where whanau champions step forward to receive some training for how to raise awareness of the effects of smoking in pregnancy and also how to be effective in supporting whanau who do smoke to become smokefree, especially pregnant women and their partners, or anyone who will play a part in the new baby's care.
The Whanau Support service will start in May 2011. Eighty whanau champions will be trained each year in how to have supportive, smokefree conversations within their families that lead to more smokefree pregnancies, whanau and babies.
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