It is really an unfortunate actuality that even pregnant women have trouble with drug use. Often times, the pregnant woman is already hooked on drugs or alcohol when they became pregnant and merely couldn't stop using no matter how hard they attempted to do so, in the best interests of their child. Continuing substance abuse while pregnant is not just going to result in a dangerous pregnancy, but tends to also drastically increases rates of miscarriage and babies born dependent to drugs or alcohol. No one wants to see their newborn experiencing alcohol or drug withdrawal because they didn't stop their drug abuse in their pregnancy. And no one wants to get their child taken away from them because they couldn't quit. Programs for expectant mothers may offer woman actual solutions to enable them to have a healthy pregnancy and eventually a healthy baby when it's born. Within a program for mothers-to-be, women can be safely detoxed without any uncomfortable side effects which could compromise their own health or the health of their infant. They can be in rehabilitation long enough to obtain the support and care that they must to fully grasp their addiction and just what caused it, in order to avoid these conditions and circumstances down the road so they are a good mother for their baby.