My son was never given antibotics when he was an infant. In fact, we've never given him antibiotics in his life, and I never took any while I was pregnant except for one they put in my IV while I was delivering. He actually was very healthy as a baby.
I do have to say one curious thing regarding metabolic disorders- Of the 3 boys in my son's special ed class with autism, all 3 of us moms have or have had thyroid problems.
I had Grave's disease (hyper-active thyroid) when I was a teen, which was corrected with medication. I later got pregnant and felt the same as I did in my last trimester as when I had the thyroid problem. My OB-GYN refused to test me because he said, "You couldn't have gotten pregnant if you have a thyroid problem," which turns out to be completely false. After I delivered, I had a very common post-pregnancy thyroid problem. Now I have a tendency to run on the high end of normal, but I get very shaky if I skip a meal, have to eat all day but stay very slim, and have high blood pressure, all of which was happening when I first got dx'd as a teen.
The other two moms found out after their kids were a few years old that they were hypo-thyroid. One of them went in for testing today to see if she has thyroid cancer.
Another curious thing is that my son, the child of a hyper-thyroid mom, will eat enormous amounts of foods of every kind. I'm not sure about one of the other boys, but I know for sure that one of the other boys with the hypo-thyroid mom hardly eats at all and limits his own diet to like 2 things.
22 Nov 2007, 2:49 am
