Vaping While Pregnant? Duke Study Reveals Dangers to Fetal Growth and Development in Mouse Model Duke Health Intrauterine exposure to nicotine through maternal vaping disrupts embryonic lung and skeletal development via the Kcnj2 potassium channel ScienceDirect We've updated our vaping during pregnancy resource. Created in partnership with ASH, the Royal College of Midwives and Sands, the infographic has important guidance around vapes and pregnancy. The resource is now 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 more effective than patches for pregnant women, study finds Dr Colin Mendelsohn Exposure to Thirdhand Smoke Harms the Health of Pregnant Women Thirdhand Smoke Resource Center