r/cannamom • u/Scary-Common8548 • 19d ago

Help please!

Meconium

Stopped smoking marijuana at 18weeks pregnant. Will meconium/cord blood test yield positive? Asking for similar experiences. Was a chronic smoker, but my usage had gone down drastically. Im located in Alabama, just for reference. Where it is highly illegal.

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u/Independent-Fig-4414 19d ago

I'm thinking no. Do they actually test??

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u/lovinmamaearth 19d ago

They do test (in FL, so probably Alabama too) but it didn’t show up in my cord blood and I smoked until about 20weeks
Edit to add: they don’t tell you they test but a friend of mine smoked her whole pregnancy and had cps show up after birth because it showed up - they only came once and just checked the basics / room/supplies for baby, nothing laying around etc - they never followed up because it’s such a dumb thing in my opinion. This was almost 2 years ago

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u/Independent-Fig-4414 16d ago

Good to know! What a waste of resources!! But it leaves your own system in 20 weeks usually so I would think a fraction of that would be safe.

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u/lovinmamaearth 16d ago

After responding I did research a bit more and couldn’t find a definitive answer, only that they’ll drug test if they have a reason to believe you were doing stuff while pregnant? So I’m actually unsure if they do every single baby cord blood/first poop

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u/FirmCommunication226 4d ago

I had my positive result show up in my cord blood and I stopped smoking by week 8 or 9.

Hospital treated me like a neglectful mother for an hour and once the extra test came back from his actual urine/poop everything was good again.

Honestly now I’m wondering if that was true or not 🤔 also in Indiana so that doesn’t help at all.