Vaping may seem safer than smoking, but it's not risk freeespecially for your baby. Nicotine, heavy metals, and other toxic chemicals in e cigarettes can affect fetal growth, brain development, and long term health. Even Nicotine products in any form, whether from cigarettes, vaping or chewing tobacco, pass into a mother's bloodstream and through the placenta to the growing baby. Quitting nicotine is hard for many people, Vaping During Pregnancy: Are e Cigarettes Safe for Baby? Vaping more effective than patches for pregnant women, study finds Dr Colin Mendelsohn Vaping more effective than patches for pregnant women, study finds Dr Colin Mendelsohn