You are so right,the whole system sucks.
Both of my kids were born with minimal problems & I've been on methadone for 8 years ans was on it with both of my pregnancies. My first born was also born @ 35w and weighed 4lbs 9oz. He has tremors & had difficulty eating which resulted in a 10 day stint in the NICU. My daughter had no symptoms & was born @ 38w & weighed 6lbs 4oz. It def. depends on te baby. They have no long term effects & are doing great!
Babies Angel,
Your no better sitting here using the lords name in vain and being judgemental! You might be a nurse but that doesn't mean sh*t; if you were my kids nurse I promise you wouldn't be for long and it's people like you that make it harder for clean people to stay clean. I thought nurses are their to support and help people not put em down and make em wanna go pop another pill, get a rock and shoot up or even worse kill them selfs. You need to think it could of been you not everybody's perfect and GOD DOES FORGIVE NOT FORGET!!!!!!!!!
Your no better sitting here using the lords name in vain and being judgemental! You might be a nurse but that doesn't mean sh*t; if you were my kids nurse I promise you wouldn't be for long and it's people like you that make it harder for clean people to stay clean. I thought nurses are their to support and help people not put em down and make em wanna go pop another pill, get a rock and shoot up or even worse kill them selfs. You need to think it could of been you not everybody's perfect and GOD DOES FORGIVE NOT FORGET!!!!!!!!!
I will undergo a csection on July2nd and am at 85mg. I even came down 10mg duringvmy 1st Trimester. Very scared of the baby having withdrawals... Of course I want tp dress m baby girl and keep her with me. Not in nicu on morphine!
This is so damn sad. IF YOU PLAN ON HAVING A BABY STAY OFF THE DAMN DRUGS NO MATTER WHAT IT IS. IF YOU DON'T WANT KIDS GET ON BIRTHCONTROL USE A CONDOM. MY FIRST DAUGHTER PASSED AWAY DUE TO COMPLICATIONS AND I HATE THE FACT THAT THESE DRUG LOW LIFE PEOPLE CAN HAVE PERFECTLY HEALTHY KIDS WHEN THE PEOPLE WHO WANT KIDS AND ARE GOOD PEOPLE CANT HAVE THEM. IF YOU DONT WANT KIDS THERE IS MANY WAY AROUND NOT HAVING THEM. USE YOUR HEAD. IT SAID ALL THESE BABIES WERE BORN TO WORTHLESS MOTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi, I was just reading post. I am currently on 65 mg of methadone. I ave2 year old little boy who is very healthy. but i want to have my 2nd child but im scared as well. please tell me what i should do. thank you.
Wow, for all your expensive Smith college costs you sure do not know how to read: every study on methadone shows NO adverse effects to a child plain and simple so get off your high horse. Too much caffeine is worse than methadone, so let's get child protective services at every Dunkin Donuts to make sure pregnant women are only drinking decaffeinated coffee.
i totally agree, methadone gave me my life back and you can ask my parents and my entire famliy. they hated it ar first but they say now that it gave me, the real me back to them. I am coming off of it now very slowly and i know it will be alright. they give us therapists that we can see whenever we need to and we have to go to groups. People that have never been addicted to anything do not understand. And I know there are LOTS of people that do not do what they are supposed to do at the methadone clinics and they are still using on the outside to stay high but if you do like you are supposed to it is a lifesaver.
As the mother you would like to think there are no long term problems, or maybe ur baby was one of the lucky ones, my 19 yr old sister gave birth to a full term baby girl, baby was born with siezures, rushed via helicopter to a bigger hospital, died a few times on way to hospital. Baby survived, now the concerns after spending over two months in hospital, possible cerebral paulsey, quite possibly blind, heart problems and much much more that will not be known til baby is older, constant worries. You should no doubt and do the unselfish thing and use birth control while on this drug, alls it is is a big money maker to the pharm companies, Im sorry but if your too chicken sh*t to go thru withdrawls yourself, how the hell are you gonna put ur baby on that..What is it, pick your poison. honestly like its such a good thing that it was meth instead of herion, it needs to be mandatory, if you want to take methadone, you should be forced to b on birth control? Your baby doesnt have a choice, you do? Y would you want to rish putting his innocent baby thru torture, have a baby when you ge ur life togather....Its selfish...
Your wrong, misleading and ignorant. If there are problems, of course its the drugs, just because its prescribed, doesnt make it ok, its disgusting, dont fool youself that things wont manifest later in life, not enough studies done, the big money maker is methadone, just because it prescribed to you doesnt mean its ok to get prego, u may as well have just been on herion, what the heck, y not? its as simple as weining the off that too? are you kidding me. I challenge someone to be honest, this is nothing short of irresponsible..The generation of methadone babies, I can only wonder what will become of them? What cost will welfare bare on the world??Its called BIRTH CONTROL
Take the methadone, just be esponsible and dont get prego until ur healthy, you choose meth, a baby doesnt!
I don't think it is fair for the goverment to take children of parents who are on methadone. I can understand the courts taking children of parents that are using illegal substances. However, it isn't fair for the courts to take children away from parents and mothers that are in treatment and are doing well. From my research it does children more harm when they don't have their biological parents in their lives. I really think that people who want children taken from parents who are in treatment are so wrong. I hope that the courts and others who have never had a problem with addiction will open their hearts to the fact that addiction is a disease, and dependency on drugs such as opiates needs to be treated with methadone. Addiction is a disease just the same as being a diabetic, and nurses and doctors will back that up as well. It is cruel to deny a diabetic insulin, and it is cruel to deny an opiate dependant methadone or suboxone. The problem with the world is that judges, courts, police officers, and people that have no degree in medicine should not be determining a childs fate if the parent or mother is on prescribed opiate substance because that parent is making an effort to be cured. I think persons on methadone face adversity just like any other out of the norm in society. I just pray that people will stop judging others.
idk..........but my grandsons mother was addicted to methadone and delivered a baby boy.The doctor told everyone the baby wold not have long term medical issues, as long as mom gets weaned off , She did it, and he has learning problems, and hes almost 4. Im not sure if its due to the methadone or not. He was tested, and the dr.says its a speech problem. idk........good luck
if your an NICU nurse you don't have enough balls to leave your real name I truley believe that their are good people out there that don't abuse the system at all I am on Methadone full time mother of a beautiful 2 and a half year old not born on methadone and work full time I am not a dead beat, I had an abortion because I didn't want a methadone baby and everyday I cry because I should have kept it maybe that would not have been fair but I still feel like I deserve that child I am not undeserving of that child.
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you will notice different about these babies. Once the initial dependence is gone (approx 4 weeks) they are NOT affected longterm. That is a proven, scientific fact. There are ZERO long term affects. for more info check NAMSA's website