Can a being born 6 weeks early put a child at risk
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Anonymous
| Would being born at 6 weeks increase the risk they'll have autism, ADHD, and anxiety? |
Anonymous
| Why do you ask? |
Anonymous
| I have two born 5 weeks early. 2 wks in NICU for boy. 1 week for girl. Now both grown and totally normal, wonderful healthy adults. |
Anonymous
| Yes it can increase the risk of neurological issues like that, but like the PP said, many premature babies grow up without any lasting issues. |
Anonymous
Yup. My nephew who was 8 weeks premature barely got NICU time, and is now a master’s student at MIT in a long-term relationship |
Anonymous
+1 There is definitely a higher chance of ADHD, learning disabilities etc with prematurity but it isn’t given. My child was born 15 weeks early, and has been lucky to grow up without any of these issues. |
Anonymous
| It does not matter because there is nothing you can do about it. My twins were 8 weeks premature. They are still young (6yo), but so far so good. No need to stress about about diagnoses or SNs until you have to. And at that point, it does not really matter what caused it. Good luck, OP. |
Anonymous
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Agree with PP. This used to give me a lot of anxiety. Yes being a preemie is part of their medical history. But nothing to do about it.
DD is now 3 and I try to stress much less about it than I used to. |
Anonymous
| We were able to keep mine cooking to 38 weeks, but I was a wreck so they must have bathed in my stress hormones the whole time and now have anxiety. Maybe prematurity would have spared them that. |
Anonymous
| There’s no correlation between autism and premature birth. There is a correlation with cerebral palsy and genetic disorders. |
Anonymous
| If you google mental health issues and premature babies you can read up on some of the studies. |
Anonymous
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One article of many - Preterm Birth and Childhood Psychiatric Disorders:
https://www.nature.com/articles/pr9201188#:~:text=Preterm%20birth%20and%20LBW%20have,)%20(7%E2%80%9310). |
Anonymous
| It is really difficult to suss out causation with these things. My 34 weeker had some mild issues that have not held the child back from anything, but those could just as easily have been attributed to genetics or birth trauma (nuchal x3). |
Anonymous
Actually there is. |
Anonymous
This is all great, but people with ADHD, anxiety , and autism can do all these things. |