Just curious if any else had a difficult birth...while my mother was in labor for me the doctors notice that my heart stopped beating during every contraction...appaerntly after a few hours of this the dotors realized that the umbilical was wrapped around my neck. During ever contraction my heart would stop for a few seconds and the oxygen was cut off. This resulted in an emergency c-section, when i came out i weighed just over 5lbs. The docs figured the cord had been around my neck for at least the last month. They also estimated that i lost close to 3lbs during that 9th month.

I'm not sure if this is related to my ADHD....but i would like to know if anybody else and a traumatic childbirth?

I don't know if I had a hard time, I don't think I did. My Mom was in labor a long time and I was a forceps. Just barely 5 pounds and my mom tells me how I did lose weight at first due to being colic......

I don't think there was anything unusual about my birth, but I was 3 weeks early and weighed only 4 lbs 10 oz. So there might have been something going on that affected my growth in utero. My older son has several developmental issues, and he did have a difficult and prolonged labor that ended with a c/s. I still wonder how much that affected him.

My mom was really sick when she was pregnant with me. Instead of gaining weight, she lost about 25lbs... My dad tells me that they could see me moving around, and could see the actual outline of my hand or foot when I punched or kicked... but I was born healthy and was over 8lbs. We were both really iron deficient though.

difficult birth, yes...

i was jaundiced, and blue from oxygen-deprivation (hey, i guess that must mean i was kinda "green"-looking - maybe there *is* something to that indigo child myth???!!!;-), and i was so tired i wouldn't eat properly, so i had to stay in hospital for the first three weeks of my life.

but, i turned out pretty okay in spite of this...
:cool: :D

Hmmm, my mother was in labor for a long time with me. I weighed 6#8ozs. and was breech. I was also born with the cord around my neck 2 times. As a baby I was colicky and would not stay asleep. Darn, I sure was a handful...LMAO.

My son came three weeks early, this after the doctors stopping premature labour twice. He was 6lbs 4oz and he wass born really quick....I emphasize the "quick". Didn't even have time to get the feel good drugs into me.

My 2 ADHDest kids did have some troubles surrounding their births. The older boy was a loooong......labor and was jaundiced for awhile after. I had been hospitalized with pneumonia in my 8th month, I lost a total of twelve pounds that month. My middle girl was a fine pregnancy, but she aspirated amniotic fluid during the birth and was O2 deprived for about five minutes. She got a mild pneumonia from the aspirated fluid, resulting in a five day stay in the NICU. :(

I was a shade under five pounds at birth (full term) and stayed small. My mom claims I was barely twelve pounds at twelve months. I don't see how that could be though, it doesn't seem possible. She had been a smoker for fifteen years at the time of my birth and did not stop because of it. Low birth weight has been linked to smoking, but I wonder about the ADHD.:confused:

My son was my 3rd pregnancy (the prev 2 ended and one after him due to miscarriage) and he was 3 weeks early. He was a high risk baby and during delivery they gave me some sort of meds to make my contractions to move along and Jakes heartbeat started slowing down, I pushed for over an hour when they used forceps AND the vaccuum suctions. (yea he was a conehead). He was born 5 lbs and about as yellow as could be (jaundice). Now it makes me wonder. It'd be something for them to do a study on to see if there's any connection.

Mom had C-section and drugged up to the hills...that was easy...

But I shown the signs of ADHD before I was born, I just could not stay still much longer and she went into labor 2 days earlier than scheduled to get C-Sec.....but just in time for Daddy....Born on Father's Day...Maybe it was meant to be that way :D

I was a difficult birth for my mother and I had to be removed with forceps. I was a 5 pound baby with a big head! LOL! My mother also told me that I was a strong kicker before she had me, (that explains why I am a good swimmer and a Lifeguard!) I was very sickley when I was young and almost stopped breathing. I still have the scars from that forceps delivery. I sometimes wonder that my ADHD and epilepsy was the results of that birth.

My mom had a lot of trouble conceiving because she was born at 11 months and a pre-mee.

She had two previous miscarriages before she had me. One she carried to 7 months and the other to two months. When she was 34 y/o, I was born on time without any problems at 8.5 lbs and 20 inches. I was a big ***** kid. Two years after me, my little brother was born but only lived one week.

I still celebrate his birthday (secretly)

Oops...accidentally posted twice.

Mom said she was on ETHER (????) during my birth (1969) & with my sis, just an epidural.


Anyone have any comments on THIS??

i had very had pregnancys. I was very very sick with both. My first i only gain ten pounds and end up having a emgercy C section b/c my sons head would go past my hips after a few hours pushing.
My secound pregnancy was also bad but i was also very sick. I suffered with very very very bad migranes. I went to neros, bla bla bla, obs end up deciding the safest thing was to take pain pills b/c most migranes meds werent safe to take and pain meds were. at least safer then to be stressed and in pain/puking. They would last days on end some times a week. Thank goddess Mya is 100% ok. happy and moving lol....

I was born in 1950, back then forceps were used alot. My mom had a very hard delivery, I was breech and forceps used. I guess my coloring was a lite blue.

My Dad was also a breech baby, born a home

We both had very very light blond hair and blue eyes

I was a dificult birth and 6 whole weeks early (momy..momy..are babies always born blue) Then i almost suffocated myself shortly after i was borne (stupid baby blanket) and was a general *** during my very early life. Then i was just an *** up untill, well, i guess very recently. I believe that my add has in some way got somthing to do with my birth and early life. If my add hasnt then mabey my dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysprasia, ocd and or asd has :P And just to seal my fate my dad is add and dyslexic and my mom is slightly dyslexic and ocd. My dad is also a junkie (how much longer he will sustain himself like this is questionable however) so i guess my fate was sealed long before i was borne.

I was a premie who weighed in at 3 lbs. 8 oz. which at the time (43 yrs ago) was a very small premie. Back then all they did for me was put me in a heated incubator and hope for the best. I was born blue so I must of been deprived of oxygen at least for a short while. All in all I was very fortunate to survive. For 43 yrs I thought I did not have any complications but have recently been dx'd with ADD. In my case I think there is a genetic component as well as enviromental. My mom shows signs of ADD and the premature birth and low birth weight didn't help any.

My mother nearly died with me, she had a gallstone attack and had to wait until I was born for that surgery. Not sure if that would be the cause, though. I always thought it was from fetal alcohol syndrome...a case of beer a day and passed out drunk when her water broke, not to mention a serious chain smoker. My little sis has dislexia and we have always given the booze the credit for both.

I was a loooong delivery which finally became a C section. I was hospitalized with jaundice for quite some time. My mother was 38 when I was born, which in 1960 was considered quite old for a first baby.

My mother had a c section(sp?) with me and she almost died=\ but she said she would do it again lol....I was a big baby...no trouble after I came out....just trouble coming out hahaha

For me mom says it was a difficult birth. I was taken out with forceps. Mom is small and I guess I had a big head.:p I was also, three days late didnt want to come out. That is okay I was born on Grandma Rose's 49th birthday :D what a grand present. The first granddaughter but fourth in line. Chris

I was born 4 months early, and was in the hospital for about a month. So, yeah I guess that would be difficult. :P

I was born to a drug-addicted alcoholic who got no prenatal care and showed up to the delivery room utterly wasted and reeking of beer. My APGARS were 0 and 1, and the doctor who delivered me had to revive me. Fortunately, that doc adopted me.

I probably wasn't hard to squeeze out, since I was only a little over 4 pounds and the doctors configured (however they do that) that I was full-term, not premature.

Now I have brain damage and epilepsy and a bunch of other junk, including symptoms of ADD, but my neuro thinks I just have symptoms and not ADD yet somehow ADD drugs are helping my memory problems. He put me on the medication (an amphetamine, which lists seizures as a risk, which seems to be confusing to me, but the neuro swears up and down and even went so far as to make a monetary wager with me that it won't make me have a seizure at the dose I'm on) to try to see if it would help my memory, and it does seem to have done so.

So anyway, I don't know that my birth was so hard on my biological mom, but I was pretty screwed up and almost dead when I exited her, if that counts.

Chrys

p.s. If it wasn't a grand mal, but rather a complex partial seizure (in which case I could still drive), it'd almost be worth having a seizure even though I haven't had one in over a year due to a magical medicine cocktail we figured out...it would be nice to get some of that money back that I've added to his bank account over the course of time...;)

p.p.s. Hey, wait--now I'm freaked out. I went into labor ona Wednesday at dinnertime and didn't dilate enough to pop the kid out until Sunday at 2:15 a.m. It was the worst. Is my kid, like, guaranteed to have ADD???

My mother had a c section(sp?) with me and she almost died=\ but she said she would do it again lol....I was a big baby...no trouble after I came out....just trouble coming out hahaha

LOL, Just the opposite here; my mother's pregnancy and delivery were completely normal with no trouble at all--the trouble began after I came out, and 43 years later I'm still trouble. :D

There have been studies on ADD and brain injury at birth, but I cant get my hands on them now. Ive also heard some interesting speculation on that it isnt the birth injury (or complicated birth) but the fact that these problems can lead to minimal or lack of breastfeeding. The high omega content of breastmilk helps minimize any inherited ADD.

I was breast-fed, too.

me too swamp donkey for nine months...healthy too:p :D

interesting....

i've been causing my mother trouble from the beginning. i was born with a blood disorder after a very difficult pregnancy, and required several blood transfusions. i was in the hospital for some time, though i cannot recall exactly how long. if i call her now to get a refresher on the details i will be waking her up....causing yet more trouble...so i will restrain myself, and just leave it at the pleasant fact that once i hit 1 there wasn't a thing wrong with me.....which is, of course, when all the REAL trouble began!!!!!!!!!!!:D

btw, did i say trouble enough in this paragraph or what?

My son was born 16 weeks early and in the hospital for 3 months.

My 7 year old daughter who is ADHD was born 4 1/2 pounds six weeks early during an emergency c-section. I had pre-eclampsia and had to get her out to save both our lives. I'm also ADHD and had a normal birth, but my mom had a very stressful pregnancy (which I was reading recently has been shown in studies to be increase the risk of ADHD) due to the fact that she was kidnapped and raped and planning on giving her baby up for adoption.

Scattered

I was breast-fed, too.
Dude, I'm one of those freaks who breast-fed her kid for 2 years!
(It was an attempt to prevent some crappy junk from familial medical history, though, so it might not happen to him...don't know if it helped or not, but I guess we'll see.)

Chrys

I amepiletic too and was also a forcep baby back in the 50's. Epilepsyand AD/HD as it is called are both neurological dioreders. I know that I am epileptic becaue the veins the temporal lobes of my head were not fully develop and are tangled. Talk about not having a first born taht is all you want it to be. Are these 2 related somehow?

my sons birth and the pregnancy were both problematic. i had several small bleeds during pregnancy and then my son was induced. he was born but didnt breath. five very scarey minutes passed before i heard him cry. he too was born with the cord around his kneck.