Of Mice and Men...

[ignoramus]

CL, you can adopt me... Name me Oedipus. When's the breast feeding starting already?

[Aractus]

Vorlorn, yes, I started taking folic acid the same day that I found out - 2 days ago. I appreciate your concern.

Folic acid supplementation doesn't do anything once you've already conceived. I'm actually surprised it continues to be recommended during the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. I mean it won't hurt anything, and I imagine the reasoning is more that it'll protect the next pregnancy if this one doesn't work out and they don't want to confuse consumers, but to have any benefit it needs to be taken for at least 2 months prior to the pregnancy and every day. If that's your plan then by all means keep taking it. But don't overdo it.

[brewer]

Vorlorn, yes, I started taking folic acid the same day that I found out - 2 days ago. I appreciate your concern.

Folic acid supplementation doesn't do anything once you've already conceived. I'm actually surprised it continues to be recommended during the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. I mean it won't hurt anything, and I imagine the reasoning is more that it'll protect the next pregnancy if this one doesn't work out and they don't want to confuse consumers, but to have any benefit it needs to be taken for at least 2 months prior to the pregnancy and every day. If that's your plan then by all means keep taking it. But don't overdo it.

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Please back that one up with documentation.

[Aractus]

[vorlon13]

My sense of urgency (even if futile) stems from a friend's sister who's amnio came back indicating NTD. She and her dolt of a husband were neither prepared to end the pregnancy nor cope with a special needs kid.

Unfit mother, indifferent father, the kid had a horrific childhood until she was old enough to take over managing her care from her idiot parents. The kid should have gone foster/adoption, and the parents should have been sterilized and parked in jail till the kid turned 18. Making an example of them would have saved other kids from precisely the horrors they put their kid through.

I think most everyone who knows of that case, in hindsight, would agree everyone let that kid down, and it needn't have happened past the first incidence of neglect.

Did I mention the parents are health care professionals ???

[Aractus]

Folate deficiency isn't the only cause of spina bifida. It's just the only identified cause. It's only estimate to account for 70% of cases, the other 30% is due to other unknown factors not at all dependant on folate. But yeah, for spina bifida, termination is not an option for everyone, but around 90% of cases are diagnosed in the first 16 weeks so most people will have the choice available in the first trimester of the pregnancy if they choose to do so.

[SteelCurtain]

Do you think it's really bad? I mean, is that the first thing that comes to mind when you hear that name??

First thing I think of when I head the name Giselle is how much I hate Tom Brady.



It's a beautiful name. If you raise a strong and confident child capable of thinking for him/herself, nicknames won't happen. If you pick a name that doesn't lend itself to nicknames, then if your child is being picked on the bullies will choose something else to make a nickname out of. I think it's unreasonable to not pick a good name based on potential ways it could be shortened.

The exception being when your last name makes a mess out of a first name. Mike Hunt for example. And also never name your kid Seymour. Ever.

ETA: If you and your husband's genes are involved and you do have a girl, she's not going to have any problems no matter what her name is.

[vorlon13]

Folate deficiency isn't the only cause of spina bifida. It's just the only identified cause. It's only estimate to account for 70% of cases, the other 30% is due to other unknown factors not at all dependant on folate. But yeah, for spina bifida, termination is not an option for everyone, but around 90% of cases are diagnosed in the first 16 weeks so most people will have the choice available in the first trimester of the pregnancy if they choose to do so.

My aggravation with them was not putting the kid first once they decided to keep.

It was amazing when the kid turned 8 or there abouts and started to be able to cath and keep track of meds and everything else, no more emergency hospital visits for infections and other issues.

[Aractus]

My aggravation with them was not putting the kid first once they decided to keep.

It was amazing when the kid turned 8 or there abouts and started to be able to cath and keep track of meds and everything else, no more emergency hospital visits for infections and other issues.

Right but how do you know how the parents are going to behave ahead of time?

[brewer]