curious about your child as a baby | Autism PDD
just curious to know about your children as babies to see if there are similar situations: mason asd was born after going into labor 3x which absolutly sucked. i was on magnesuim sulfate 2x and some shot the 3x. i still dont know if this did something to mason. well as soon as we left the hospital all heck broke loose. mason cried non stop! 24 hours a day i swear i went to his ped. everyother morning and he said try a new formula it just is not agreeing with him.he told me he has colic. yea right. any way long story short-4 months of this my mom basicly living with us now to help mason had severe refuld(gerd) adn allergy/protein sensitivity to his formula and the rice/oatmeal cereal we put in his bottles.
did anyone else have these problems with reflux/ allergies/proten sensitiivty-which the fomula was soooo expensive-broke the bank/
mason also can not take meds that are red/pink or drink red juice?
just curious thanks>
Luke was a crier! He was definitely colicky and had some sort of allergy to his formula, but we never could figure out what and his pediatrician was NO help. She kept saying to give him pear juice (which he refused to drink). He had very bad problems with constipation (which have now ceased) for about 18 mos. I have ceased giving Luke anything with artificial colors and am phasing out his red-colored cranberry juice.Luke also liked to jump a lot in his exersaucer. He'd be in there for quite a long time jumping (and the darn thing was SOOOO LOUD!). Another odd thing was that he liked to roll from one place to another. He didn't crawl until he was about 11 mos old and a month later he started to walk.
He's now 27 mos and still very active, still likes to bounce on the couch, and still likes rolling (though not nearly as much!). His tantrums usually aren't bad though (thank the sweet Lord!).
Kellie
mason never liked to be in anything-only wanted to be on the floor or in his crib-hated the extersaucer/swing and now we under stand it was a sensory issue he felt trapped. and when he was crying for so long and we held him to try to calm him down it only made it worse and last alot longer we were over stimulating him. gee-if i only knew what i know now-alot is anwred 3.5 years later about what a unique child he was and still is. we never had a problem with constipation. he would not poop-he had an upper and lower gi done at 8 weeks adn they said they both came back neg. for anthing wrong. which was wrong because his protein sensitivity was so severe little parts of his colon were coming off. and just a couple of months ago mason was so bad off and kept grabbing his stomach and screaming and crying and laying on the floor- we did not know what the heck was wrong since he could not tell us-after 1 day we took him to the er-they thought his intestines were twisting-wow-well luckily they were not but we did find out that they are higher up in his body than normal. anyway mason ended up having an infection in his wee-wee and when he peed in his diaper it hurt and stung really bad. and he got cramps cuz he tried not to pee cuz of the pain adn that is why his stomach hurt. gee the things i go thru.
Cyndie,My goodness, but your poor little guy has been through a lot! (As have you!) Thank goodness they caught the twisting intestines in time ... how painful that sounds.
Also having a urinary tract infection -- that must have been terrible.
:/ Luke LOVED his swing (and still does love to swing .. it's
about the only thing he'll do when we take him to the
playground). His swing was the only thing that would help him
stop crying when he was a baby. Luke didn't mind being held when
he was crying as long as he didn't get too hot. He had a high
metabolism, I guess, be/c we could NOT put socks or anything footed on
him ... he would get beat red and very very warm. Could've been a
sensory issue, too, I gues be/c he still has extremely ticklish feet
(although tonight ... for the 1st time EVER) he let me cut his toenails
without him crying, screaming, or pulling his feet away!!!
HOORAY! 
Thank God for small miracles!Actually, our little guy was the sweetest, easiest baby. He did spit up alot but it didn't seem to bother him at all. He always ate well, slept well. Was all smiles and hardly ever cried.
He was very easy going. There was one thing- he had to sleep in his crib, in his own room. If you opened the door he would wake -up, I guess he was sensative to the noise.
Don't even get me started on trimming mails- it's a wrestling match at our house.
Grant came early by c section 5 weeks early. He was only 3 pounds at birth, but everyone said he appeared healthy just underweight. He has stopped growing and not getting any nutrition through to him about two weeks before they took him. To this day I do not know why they waited if they knew two weeks prior cause they told me after the fact that because he had stopped growing and getting nutrition he was not getting enough oxygen either. He did not really cry much as a baby or make much sounds at all. I was not able to breast feed because he could not latch on and when he finally did he got so tired that he gave up. He had trouble with most every formula we tried. He finally got put on carnation good start and that agreed with him. He had trouble eating solids when that time came. He would gag on almost everything. Now he is 4 1/2 and has no trouble eating. He did not like to be cuddled as a baby. Not until about a year ago did he start being more affectionate.I had pregnancy induced high blood pressure with both my sons, but much worse with Jakob, so they also had me on magnesium during my labor. Jakob was a very easy baby, didn't cry much at all, but something didn't seem "right" with him at the get go. Just seemed like when I held him up close to my face he didn't even realize I was there...like he was looking right through me. I wondered if he was blind for awhile. The whole blood pressure thing messed up my eyesight for about 3 weeks so I wondered if it affected his also. But he seemed to meet all his milestones at an appropriate time: smiling, rolling over, walking. Just not talking. When he was a little baby he preferred to lay in his crib ALL THE TIME and just watch his mobile. He was never a very good sleeper though, up several times during the night. He sleeps in our bed now, so we are all getting sleep, we'll be moving soon, so I'm putting off moving him to his own bed until after the move.Kate has some similarities to the boys and some differences too! EASY Labor and Delivery-she was born on her due date-after 1 1/2 hours labor (didn't have time for an epidural). She was perfect except for a little jaundice which a few days under a wallabee light took care of. She has always been 'high maintenance'..not colicy, not fussy, just demanding. She also spit up all the time. She wasn't uncomfortable, it would just come on up..suspected gastric reflux, but they didn't do anything. She met all her milestones on time or early..rolled over at 4 months, crawled at 6, walked at 9 1/2 months (was my life ever over!). The language part never kicked in, but I didn't worry because big brother had been a late talker. She also never slept through the night, but big brother didn't sleep through the night until he was 3. One odd thing was that I used to sit for hours with her brother in my lap when he was a baby and we would look at each other and I would sing to him for hours. Katie never wanted that kind of interaction and actively avoid it. Silly me, I was relieved because with a busy toddler, I didn't have as much time to sit and interact with her. She was content to chill out in her baby carrier..perhaps with gastric reflux and ear infections that she enjoyed sitting up. She also got her first ear infection at 6 months and then had ear infxns every 4 months after that.
I had an early birth, ds was being strangled by umbilical cord. Had to use moniters on his head in utero and used suction, forceps and something else to help get him down.
Blue when he was finally delivered, low apgar, low heart rate. Spent couple days being monitered.
Colicky for a year!!! Did not respond to sounds (tested numerous times for hearing) hated being touched, not affectionate, no eye movement/contact.. It's traumatized me from having another one. oh, and rarely slept.
Andy was diagnosed "failure to thrive" at six weeks! The doctor scheduled a follow-up appt. at a hospital the next morning. I had remembered that some of the relatives on DH's side of the family were lactose intolerant as infants. Andy had been being breastfed at that time. I immediately started him on soy formula, and he gained 8 oz. overnight. Needless to say, that was the end of breastfeeding for him.
He met most of his physical milestones on time, but was very slow to talk. We just thought that he was closer to normal in that area since his older brother was an over-achiever. A concerned parent who was also a special ed teacher told us that something was wrong with Andy one morning while we were waiting to put his older brother on the school bus. Andy was tested on his fourth birthday (Nov. 7) and started Early Childhood Development classes right after the Christmas break.
Kim
Takoda HFA was an impossible newborn. His delivery was pretty uneventful I had petocine they said because my water had broke. I had an epideral the labor was very short started at supper and ended at 11:00 pm.
He had a very high-pitched cry and could not be comforted by me or the nurses. He spent nights screaming in my room because of the breastfeed on demand order. Things like running the vacum that helped with the other colicy babies just made him worse.
He did calm at about 3 mo. He was easy going just sat in his racecar and seemed to want to nurse every 2-3 hrs. Nursed slowly I think that's all I got done for the first year.
He was also very lactose intolerate. His eating habits were very strange he would gag on bottles and pacifers and only wanted to nurse one side. He still gags easy and eats very little. He met milestones slowly except walking he did that at 13 mo. Nelle mason still can not have anything on his feet- put shoes on him to go out-within seconds they are off again- get in the car they are off i have tried sandals so his feet could feet air. still does not work. when he was a baby he could not wear the one piece pj's with feet screamed. yes we also have a meltdown time when it comes to nail cutting. also bathing,teeth brushing,and hair cutting. Corbin was a great baby. Everyone told me I would never be so lucky to have another good baby. He just never slept good. He ate to much too often too sleep. (what a problem I know LOL) He slept beside our bed or in and we were all happy. He hit all milestones early. He rolled, crawled, and walked early. Walked at 10 1/2 months. He was constantly on the go and still is. Then at 13 months started having seizures and nothing was every the same. Most dev stopped then. Now at 35 months his speech is at 12 mos, physical still good at 30ish mos, cog 18 mos, and adaptive 18 mos. NO ONE REFERRED HIM. Even though I begged. I finally did in Jan until they they had me convinced nothing was wrong. As for spit up, not due to diegestion or allergies. I finally tried a bottle called vent air and not seen spewing spit up since, just typical dribbles when burping even with new baby. As for co-sleeping. We moved in our house 2 weeks ago. Put him to bed the first night with tv on mute (so he can see, he never watches?) Gave him a passy (his calming activity) and he slept the night in there, and has ever since!!!!!!!!!!!!
mason had 1 seizure at 16 months scared the he-- out of me and my husband. they said it was caused by high fever. but he was not sick so i still question that. mason also did not like the vacuum-you could not be loud in the house and opening the door to his room would wake him up- we even tried running the shower but that did not work either. mason was very hard to comfort. my mom and i would take turns at night. and he would get up for a feeding. and 1 hr later he would finally get to sleep only to wake up after 1 hour
he still has to sleep with a fan on to block noise.
His seemed disinterested in brothers and got upset when they insisted on playing with him. I even had to modify my behavior because I played more physical turning them upside down and tickleing (they are boys they usually love that stuff). Takoda didn't. Nelle I was wondering about this. I first thought something might be wrong when Nate was a baby. I had pre-eclampsia but also was a Navy wife so received no treatment for that. They actually messed up pretty badly. I was so swollen I couldn't wear shoes of any kind, feet didn't fit. If you touched my arm you'd dent it, it was terrible. I showed up for my appt when I was 9 days overdue and they had mistakenly scheduled me for a day the clinic was closed. They said I'd need to wait another 2 wks for an appt, I had waited 17 days for that one I wasn't waiting again. I was sent up to the "labor deck" to be evaluated. When I got there they told me I wasn't who I said I was because I was in the back being induced already. The dr had gotten the charts mixed up and thought someone else was me the day before and induced them instead. They were only 37 wks, I was almost 42. They did an ultrasound to check for cord placement once they were convinced I was who I said I was and, after I explained to the dr how to turn the machine on, they said the cord was nowhere near his neck. Unfortunately the dr was wrong, it was wrapped twice. The labor was fine until the cord began to choke him. Then they rushed me to a delivery room and a nurse jumped on a stool and literally pushed him from my body. Yes, there was meconium, but not a lot. I was in labor about 24 hrs. When I brought him home I sat and rocked him for hours waiting for him to go to sleep. He just laid and stared with the hugest eyes. Finally I had to get my older child a drink so I laid him in his cradle for less than 5 minutes. When I came back he was sound asleep. That became his pattern, if you wanted him to sleep you had to lay him down. He was a very calm baby, rarely cried and slept a lot. Or so I thought, as it turned out he wasn't sleeping. I finally decided to go in and wake him up, to not allow him to sleep for hours, and when I went in his room he was just sitting in his crib staring at the wall. He wouldn't even acknowledge that you had walked in the room usually. Sometimes he'd be rocking. He didn't like any toys until he discovered his brother's matchbox cars. I don't think he ever would have walked if it weren't for matchbox cars. He'd do anything to get his hands on one. When he'd get one he'd run it around and around on the coffee table in circles. He literally wore a groove in the table. Later he began to line them up and you couldn't touch them. Then he began being interested only in the wheels. He's never played with any other toy, not even the playsets for the cars. I thought it was funny when he finally spoke and his first word was cookie. He didn't say momma or dadda until much later. When he was 2 if we would buy him a pack of M & M's while we were out he would refuse to eat them until we were home. Then he would dump them all out on the table, sort them by color and throw away the brown ones because you just don't eat those. In fact, all brown foods are bad, if you were wondering. Now he doesn't eat M & M's either because there's brown inside. Some milestones he met, some he didn't. He loved his jumper, would jump in it for hours. All along the way I mentioned these things to his dr. His dr always brushed me off, told me I was complaining about having a content child. He told me I was upset because he didn't act needy enough and I was a person who needed to be needed. I tried not to complain after that and actually lied sometimes to the pediatrician about certain things so that the dr would stop thinking poorly of me. Maybe I wasn't being attentive enough, I thought. Maybe I was just missing all of the things Nate could do. What bothered me most was the blank stare that Nate often had. It's a mouth gaping stare that he still has and wears whenever he's not connecting with us. And he never ran to us for a hug, or wanted to be cuddled. I missed that with him. There were many other little things. I didn't realize that they all added together, I viewed them all separately. But I always knew something wasn't right, there was a problem somewhere. Nate wasn't diagnosed until this past year. He's 9 now. They rated his anxiety and it's in the 97th percentile along w/ paranoid schizophrenics. They say he lives in a constant anxiety attack. I really wish that someone had listened sooner but I can't change that. One other odd thing to add to this long post... We lived in Navy housing. Nate was born in the summer. Navy housing is infamous for it's pest control trucks. They drive around all summer long spraying pesticides so thickly you can't breathe outside, you go inside but the stench penetrates the house. I've heard some theories that one of the catalysts to ASD could possibly be pesticide exposure. If that is true then I know where Nate got exposed. ok my turn my waters never develped and so i bled till 13 weeks . was then kept in hospital flat on my back untill emergency c section at 29 weeks (bed baths are not as much fun as they say on tv lol
as a baby he didnt really cry in fact he didnt do anything he just laid there . but i spoke to soon he developed one hell of a temper at about 12 months . he spoke a couple of words at 2 lost his speech and then it came back a year or so later with a vengence lol. um he sat up at a year and walked at about 2 . he has had a tonne of medical problems but i think he has come through really well considering they said a baby with out fluids in the womb wont live and then spouted at me that he would never walk or talk etc . it is nice to prove doctors wrong and that i was right to continue my pregnancy after 18 weeks ( they wanted me to abort at that stage) ryan was a typical pregnancy , induced at 42 weeks , he hit his mile siones a little late but nothing too bad so i had two totally different births and babys and yet both on the spectrum .weird You know it's weird....Adam's pregnancy and delivery was uneventful. He's the only one of my children that they just went on and on about how healthy his skin color was etc. His skin color was more pinkish red than my other two which they said meant he had volumes of oxygen etc. He was also my only baby with colic though and that was a nightmare. Although I always suspected something was wrong even though i couldn't put my finger on it. He made his milestones on time and everything but something else was nagging at me and I didn't know what it was. I'm sure looking back it was some form of lack in social non-verbal communication like gestures etc. As he grew older it just became more and more apparent that something wasn't right and when he should have been talking more than he was that is when I knew for sure that something was definetly wrong. Karrie I had horrible morning sickness day and night until like two weeks before Dominic was born. He was on time- only two days later than they said he'd be. He had meconium in the amnio fluid, and they whisked him off right away before I ever saw him cuz they said his APGAR was kinda low. I didn't get to the Dr. in time for drugs, so he was 100% natural.
He was diagnosed with reflux when he was like a month or two old.. he used to make this horrible rattling wheeze whenever he breathed, till they put him on the prednizone and zantac for a while-- then it just suddenly disappeared. He was really slow with walking and all that too- it took forever for him to even sit up. He never cried, or fussed or anything. He chewed on a teether ring, and bounced himself constantly, if i'd let him, in the saucer chair thing... I dunno if that helped or not? Funny, I was waiting to hear how many were "meconium babies"...oddly, there was this same thread going on another site for a different syndrome (CVS)...and while there was nothing unusual (at the time in my mind) during pregnancy I thought about the day he was born, like his older brother, it was 3 hours labor, and like you Penny, not quick enough so totally natural (I tried to tell them to wait cuz I didn't get my epidural yet! That didn't work!) He was a meconium baby though, and he didn't cry at birth, and they whisked him away too, he never cried as a baby either, you never knew when he woke up from naps etc....so when I saw this thread on the other site, I did a quick search on meconium...a lo and behold...something came up for "autism". I can't find the exact link anymore, but found this one if anyone is interested. All seems to relate to "premature cord clamping". Additionally, while in the hospital, they kept telling me everything was fine, and Riley came to me about an hour after birth...never said anything went wrong, but I got an insurance billing summary about 6-7 months later where they were billed for "resuscitation"...called the doctor's office and they told me "oh, we always bill that way for meconium babies"... http://www.naturalsolutionsradio.com/articles/article.html?i d=3364&filter= ~Lesley I'm going to jump in here, even though my memory of her 1st year is such a blur! She is a twin and I think I slept about 30 hours the whole year. Callie and Avery were early - 35 weeks. Callie had to be "gavaged" (sp) for a couple of days in the NICU b/c she would spit her formula up. She also has trouble latching on for breastfeeding and it always seemed like her tongue "got in the way". I remember it stuck out a lot too. That seemed to correct itself. She did have psoriasis as an infant and her skin has always been an issue. I had to have magnesium sulfate 2X for my blood pressure. I also had it with my son 3 years earlier. Callie was very passive and VERY quiet. She cried like any other baby, but as she approached 6 months, she would just sit and watch the activity around her. She crawled at 7-8 months and walked at 12 months. Her language was extremely delayed (3 years) and as a 1/2 year old, she never cried for anything, had fits, wanted anything, very passive. People would say how "lucky" I was that Callie was so easy going and how she would "entertain" herself. I thought it was pleasant, but different. Those were some of my first memories of starting to worry. She was just too CALM. Anyway, she was a very sweet baby and needed very little. I guess it was a blessing since there were 2 of them. However, I would gladly go back 4 years ago and relive that 1st year again with 2 needy babies, if it meant Callie didn't have to deal with this right now. I was diagnosed with preeclampsia at 24 weeks with my oldest son, bedrest for 13 weeks with induction at 37 weeks. I was horrible sick and it did affect him, as he gained very little weight over the last 10 weeks I was pregnant. I was on mag sulfate, stadol, and finally an epidural as they were preparing for an inevitable c-section when I finally started progressing. After brith, ds had problems with maintaining his body weight and blodd sugar levels and jaundice. They kept telling us the mag effects would be gone in 24 hours (5 days later I felt back to normal and the BURNS on my skin from the mag in my sweat eating away at the frames of my glasses took 3 weeks to heal) and DS was much less responsive for about 5 days as well. After that he was pretty much a normal kid, ate like crazy and shot from the 5% in weight to 90% in weight in 6 weeks (and stayed there). He hit all of his milestones etc.. the only thing he did have was an incidence of perioribital cellulitis at age 5 months (infection of the tissue surrounding the eye) and then a series of ear infections for the next 5 months after that. We did not catch any speech delay until he was almost 2 1/2 years old (and at the time we also thought it was rather odd he showed no interest at all in my pregnancy, but we thought and still think it was his way of showing he was upset coupled with the arrivial of the baby and him telling it to go away whenever he could). It is most likely that the ear infections played a strong role in the development of his speech delay because he had no movement in his ear drums and we know he was unable to hear some sounds. As for the rest, its possible that how sick I was also plays a role in him today (a long with genes). I also had it with my youngest DS, but no where near as severe and I was no were near as ill. I also was also on bedrest for 6 weeks with him, but it was preventative to keep my blood pressure down and I was induced the immediately after it went up and stayed up.
Luke, too, will occasionally awaken several times a night if he's had a
very stimulating day. In fact, it's the nights when we think he
should sleep the longest and deepest that he sleeps the worst. :/
Usually, though, Luke sleeps well and if he wakes up, we hear him
babbling in his crib and playing with his stuffed animals ... and he'll
turn on the music from his old mobile.
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