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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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