Expectant mothers aren't just breathing, eating, and drinking for 2, but anything they expose themselves, including alcohol and drugs, affects their child. If an expectant mother is consuming alcohol or taking any type of illegal drug or prescription medication which could negatively affect their baby, such as prescription pain medications or hypnotics which are often abused non-medically, so is their child. Therefore, it's crucial that addiction treatment for expectant mothers can be acquired and utilized on an immediate basis, to ensure that both mother and child can avoid any serious and disastrous consequences. Becoming sober one one's own, even though one's pregnancy is in danger, isn't as easy as you are likely to think. Being a substance abuser can alter one's decision making and priorities, and this causes it to be difficult to make the right choices regarding one's pregnancy. In addiction treatment for expectant mothers, treatment counselors will make sure that treatment client is easily detoxed and receives the rehab they need to remain abstinent for the remainder of their pregnancy and beyond that. This will make sure that they can be a competent and loving parent for their child after they deliver their baby, and can go on to have an alcohol and drug free life.