Helping Pregnant Women to Quit Smoking

The CO Check Baby is a simple breath test device to help pregnant women quit smoking. A single breath from the pregnant women will not only display her Carbon Monoxide levels from smoking but it will also display the amount of Carbon Monoxide she has passed on to her unborn baby.

Guidelines in the UK now request all pregnant women are CO breath tested at first ante-natal appointment. Figures show that maternal smoking is to blame for more than 2,000 premature births and 5,000 miscarriages every year in the UK. The aim of breath checks is also to detect the hidden harms of second-hand smoke and traffic pollution on unborn children.