The nurse is providing health teaching to a group of women of childbearing age. One woman states that she is a smoker, and asks about the effect on her fetus. The nurse tells her that which fetal complication can occur when the mother smokes?
1. Genetic changes in the fetal reproductive system
2. Extensive central nervous system damage
3. Addiction to the nicotine inhaled from the cigarette
4. Fetal intrauterine growth restriction
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Rationale 1: No genetic changes to the fetal reproductive system are associated with smoking.
Rationale 2: Nervous system damage has not been associated with smoking.
Rationale 3: There is no evidence that fetal nicotine addiction occurs.
Rationale 4: Placentas of women who smoke during pregnancy are smaller, and their babies are smaller because they receive less oxygen.
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