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#20

>I think it [celiac disease] can be due to the stress level you are
>under when you're pregnant.
>
>My oldest son is Not Celiac. But I was taking my iron pills and even
>increased them to 2 a day, along with prenatal vitamins. It was a UN
>eventful pregnancy.
>
>My youngest was a different story. He was always on the move before
>and after his birth.  I didn't take iron pills until blood test came
>back and the doctor told me I was very anemic and needed to take
>them. This was at about 12 weeks.  I took only 1 iron pill a day +
>the prenatal vitamins.  My second came along unexpectedly. My
>husband wasn't thrilled about having a second child at this point
>and it caused a lot of friction to the point of telling him to
>leave, I could do it with or without him.  I didn't need him to make
>everyone miserable. Then he backed off. I was dismissed from my job
>when they found out I was pregnant.  It was a defiantly
>[definately?]   a very stressful pregnancy. It isn't easy finding a
>job when one is 5-7 months pregnant. My husband was going school
>full-time for his second degree and was only working part time.  I
>eventually gave up my job search until after the baby.  Because it
>was a big joke.
>
>I breast fed both my sons, But the youngest was always hungry...
>what he got from me was simply not enough. So we did formula too. He
>was projectile vomiting the Similac.  Therefore, I switched him to
>soy.  It seemed to help. The moment he went on solid food full-time,
>we were in for a challenge.
>
>Yes, I feel the stress I was under may have triggered his Celiac. It
>was not until he was 7 that I was diagnosed with Celiac.  I then had
>my kids tested. It answered a lot of questions for us. He should
>have been the poster child for Celiac and behavioral problems.
>These days he is doing well, so long as he sticks to his diet.

#21

>Genes definitely can give newborns celiac.  I had it as an infant & almost
>died before I was 1 year old.  I am now 54 & was just re-diagnosed  less than
>2 years ago.

@22

>As an RN, speaking from the experience of 30 years as a newborn
>nurse, and Neonatal Intensive Care, there are times we do not know
>what the stressors were during the pregancy.  Mom may never even
>know the baby was stressed.  The cord being around the neck for a
>few hours, then unwinding, may never be known or seen, but oxygen
>depletion from neck compression or cord compression is definately a
>stress.  The baby always shunts oxygen to his brain under stress,
>but that could be the stressor to the body that sets off unknown
>complications.

#23

>I was told by celiac experts that a child cannot develop CD until they have
>been ingesting gluten (like at 6 months of age).  They have to have the gene,
>a triggering factor and ingesting gluten in order to develop CD.

#24

>Birth is traumatic.  If you need to find a trigger for your son's
>celiac, I would be more likely inclined to consider that, rather
>than try to place blame on yourself for something that is in the
>past and can't be changed.  Life is too short.  Enjoy your health.
>Also, if you would like to find a humorous bend (I always look for
>those) maybe your son's celiac was triggered because like you said,
>he was hyperactive in utero, and in the process of being born, he
>had to be still for a while.

#25

>Yes, this also happened to us.  No one in our family has been diagnosed with
>celiac, I however question whether or not my father-in-law has celiac (blood
>tests were negative).   Anyway, our first born was 16 weeks premature.  He
>was diagnosed with failure to thrive and had a section of his intestines
>removed due to infection.  He started gaining weight when given breast milk
>and was released from the hospital four months later.  He began having
>celiac symptoms with his very first taste of barley cereal and various baby
>foods (he did fine on rice cereal).  The pediatrician said he just had a
>stomach virus and because of prematurity, it would take longer to rid
>himself of it.  One month later, unsatisfied with the doctor's response I
>began logging everything he ate and noticed a common thread.  Grain.  Many
>baby foods six years ago had wheat or oat flour in them.  I questioned his
>surgeon as to whether the surgery caused the celiac.  He said possibly,
>however, the prematurity itself may have caused it.  He's been gluten-free
>for 6 years and doing great.  You'd never know what he's been through.  So,
>no one in our family has been diagnosed, yet our son has Celiac probably
>caused by a traumatic event.

#26

>  I thought I'd read in some doctor's account, somewhere that
>people can be born with it, it just doesn't happen as often.  I wouldn't
>doubt that my brother had that problem, as he was born mentally retarded.
>There's plenty of trauma available in the womb, every disease you had would
affect him or her, getting hot, etc.

#27

>I think that you are right about the fact that what we ate while
>pregnant affected our children: with the first one I was forcing
>myself to drink milk for the calcium, and he is the one who had the
>incredible pre-natal hiccoughs and kicking, and the first time I put
>him down in his crib, he crawled to the other end! He was also very
>allergic to dairy for about 13 years but can now tolerate it without
>caution.  He is now the calm intellectual one though, and it is his
>calm baby brother who has the tremendously awful reactions to gluten
>(and drinking milk is not so good either, though eating cheese and
>yogurt seem fine, and milk used in foods seems fine - just can't
>drink down glassfuls without becoming mean and rude).


Ed. comment: Yikes - I can really resonate with the reference to a
child who becomes 'mean and rude' after drinking milk or eating
gluten.














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