[newtus]

I was reading Brosci post about his/her birth was a week late? am i correct brosci?

i was wondering about everyone else.

me
i was premature born.
about two months early. 6 weeks. at a little over 4 pounds.

Two months early. It was too hot in there.

I was too comfortable inside so I was 2 weeks late and had to be induced, and then got stuck and was an emergency c-section.

*Willow*

[The_little_didgee]

I was 3.5 weeks early. My mother nearly had to have a c-section because the placenta started to detach before she went into labor.

[medicalfox]

Originally Posted by The_little_didgee

I was 3.5 weeks early. My mother nearly had to have a c-section because the placenta started to detach before she went into labor.

Interesting, the detachment of the placenta is called abruptio placentae and can cause autism. The likely hood of developing autism from this is due to oxygen deprivation which can cause brain injuries and other misshapes. I mentioned this because you have autism too (well, I assume you do since you're on the autism forum and speak of experiences with it).

[lostincornflakes]

I am adopted. While I know nothing about my birth, I truly believe being adopted has played a part in my mental illness. I definitely have abandonment issues.

[Gr3tta]

I was right on time, but I was blue from low temperature. I got wrapped up in bubble wrap and whisked off to an incubator. I got up to normal within a few hours though.
Interesting question.

[The_little_didgee]

Originally Posted by medicalfox

Interesting, the detachment of the placenta is called abruptio placentae and can cause autism. The likely hood of developing autism from this is due to oxygen deprivation which can cause brain injuries and other misshapes. I mentioned this because you have autism too (well, I assume you do since you're on the autism forum and speak of experiences with it).

Actually, my mother had marginal placenta previa.

Yes, I am autistic.

[costello]

My son was due on March 16 and born on March 21. He was healthy and beautiful at 8 lb., 12 oz. The midwife commented that he looked like he was 2 weeks old already.

[newtus]

now that most have commented. do any of you feel (that had complications of some sort) that itt contributed to how you are? your functioning? in any way?

i know for me for example. im allergic to many things/cant take many foods cuz of low birth weight and preemie. i have a feeling it contrbuted to my mental health as well!

Originally Posted by newtus

do any of you feel (that had complications of some sort) that itt contributed to how you are? your functioning? in any way?

Nope, not really. I think that my MH problems are more to do with what happened to me growing up than my birth or experiences in utero. JMO.

*Willow*

[newtus]

true that. i think it helped make things go wrogg for me. but experiences are the biggest thing for me.

[Erti]

According to my mom I was 8 days late. I was 19inches and 7lb.

[Gr3tta]

Technically, I might not even be me. My mother didn't see me until i'd been out of the room quite awhile. I could've been switched at birth - her real daughter is out there somewhere...

(I don't really believe that, but the thought has occured to me)

[faerie_moon_x]

Originally Posted by Gr3tta

Technically, I might not even be me. My mother didn't see me until i'd been out of the room quite awhile. I could've been switched at birth - her real daughter is out there somewhere...

(I don't really believe that, but the thought has occured to me)

Even if you weren't the baby born to the mom, you're still you. You just belonged to someone else. There was a story about a similar thing in the news recently, where a little boy was abducted. They found him about a year later abandoned in a building half way across the country, basing his identity off of his ears (similar ears?) Anyway, turned out he wasn't the abducted boy and no one knows what happened to that poor baby. But the one they found is trying to solve the case. I think it happened in 1965.

As for me, I was born 3 days late during a full moon after my mom ate a huge meal of BBQ burgers, corn, and all the fixins. If anything effected me before birth, it was that my mom had breast cancer and didn't know it. I was a miricle baby because 2 years later she miscarried my sibling due to the cancer, and her examination from that is what got her diagnosed, but they didn't know how long she'd had it - only that it was somewhat advanced at that point, so they think years.

[mimi2112]

Apparently my mom was convinced I was a boy before I was born. Had a name picked out for me and everything. Funny thing is I remember being such a tomboy. I hated playing cowboys and Indians cause I wasn't supposed to run around shirtless like the Indian would have. I played the Indian with a shirt on. I did play with dolls though and my favorite color was pink, so I'm pretty sure I don't have a gender identity disorder.

My mom said I was a whole month late, but I don't think that's biologically possible.

ETA : Like Willow said, I think my problems have more to do with the way I was brought up than with when I was a fetus, but we talked about the mother's early exposure to toxins in another thread, so I think my mom's exposure definitely affected me.

[Atypical_Disaster]

My mother was in labor for over 36 hours with me, before they decided to do a c-section because ironically enough my head was too big! If it weren't for modern medicine neither my mother or I would have made it.

I know when I was first hospitalized the doctors asked my mother if my birth was difficult because supposedly a difficult birth can potentially have something to do with it. I don't know if that had something to do with it or not, I haven't thought about it much.