Expectant mothers aren't just breathing, eating, and drinking for 2, but what they become exposed to, including drugs and alcohol, affects their child. If a pregnant woman is consuming alcohol or taking any type of illicit drug or prescription drug that may negatively affect their child, like prescription pain medications or hypnotics which are often abused non-medically, so is their baby. It is therefore essential that addiction treatment for expectant mothers can be acquired and made use of on an immediate basis, to ensure that both mother and child can avoid any severe and disastrous effects. Becoming abstinent one one's own, even though one's pregnancy is at risk, isn't as easy as you are likely to think. As being a substance abuser can cloud one's judgment and priorities, and this can make it difficult to make the correct choices regarding one's pregnancy. In addiction treatment for expectant mothers, treatment counselors will ensure that rehab client is safely detoxed and receives the rehabilitation they need to remain abstinent through out their pregnancy and beyond that. This will be sure that they are able to be a competent and loving parent for their child after they deliver their baby, and can continue to have a substance abuse free life.