TO ALL U JUDGMENTAL PEOPLE U HVE NO RIGHT WHT SO EVER TO JUDGE!MOVING ON;I HVE A 6 Y/O SON WHO I GAVE BIRTH TO ON 50 MGS OF METHADONE & HE WAS BORN 6LBS/6OZ/19 INCHES.HE DID NOT TEST POSITIVE @ ALL FOR METHADONE!THE UNBORN CHILD ONLY GETS 10% OF YOUR DOSE GIVE OR TAKE & ALTHOUGH IT'S VERY RARE FOR THE BABY TO TEST NEGATIVE IT IS POSSIBLE.MY SON WAS 3 WKS EARLY DUE TO MINOR COMPLICATIONS WHICH HAD NOTHING TO DO W/ MY MEDICATION IT WAS DUE TO MY BODY ACTUALLY HAVIN ISSUES!MY 1ST PREGNANCY(NOT ON METHADONE)SADLY DIDNT GO AS PLANNED,I MISCARRIED.THE DOCTORS TOLD ME MY 1ST PREGNANCY BEING ALL THE PROBLEMS I HAD IN THE PAST B4 GETTIN PREGNANT THT I WAS CONSIDERED HIGH RISK & THEY WERE GOIN TO ACT VERY CAUTIOUSLY BUT UNFORTUNATELY B4 MY 2ND APP I HAD MIS-CARRIED.AFTER HAVING MY SON ON METHADONE HE ONLY HAD TO BE IN NICU FOR 10 DAYS ALL TOGETHER,THEY COULDNT RELEASE HIM UNTIL HE WAS @ A CERTAIN WEIGHT & EATING SO MANY OUNCES AT A TIME.I SEEN 3 DIFF DOCTORS MY WHOLE PREGNANCY(BY MY CHOICE)JUST WANTED TO BE CERTAIN THT I WAS GETTING THE BEST CARE THERE WAS TO OFFER.I INITIALLY WAS PRESCRIBED PAINKILLERS AFTER BEING IN AN ACCIDENT WHICH INVOLVED BEING HIT BY A SEMI TRUCK IN HORRIBLE WINTER CONDITIONS,IN RESULT OF ACCIDENT I HAD SPINE INJURIES,BROKEN COLLAR BONE, & ALL MY RIBS BUT 2 WERE BROKEN.ONCE I HAD BEEN TAKEN OFF MY MEDS I WAS IN GREAT PAIN & WAS BEGINNING TO MISS WORK & LEAVE EARLY DUE TO ALL THE PAIN IN MY BODY.I THEN STARTED BUYING OPIATES OFF A C0-WORKER BC I DIDNT HVE INSURANCE & HAD FEW OPTIONS.I HAD TO DO SOMETHING 4 THE PAIN BC WORKING 50 HRS A WK & GOING TO COLLEGE FULL TIME WAS NOT A WALK IN THE PARK.I FEEL IF I WAS JUST @ HOME SITTING ON MY ASS ALL DAY IT WOULD HVE BEEN ALOT EASIER TO SUFFER LONG TERM WITHDRAWL FROM THE PAIN MEDS I WAS ON FOR 3YRS.SO WHN IT CAME DOWN TO:"DO I SPEND MY $ ON PILLS SO I CAN GET OUT OF BED TO GO TO CLASS/WORK TODAY" OR "DO I USE MY $$ FOR FOOD TODAY"WELL I COULDNT EAT ANYWAYS UNLESS I HAD SOMETHING,SO SUM1 REFFERED ME TO A METHADONE CLINIC,WHICH WAS EXPENSIVE,HOWEVER IT WAS CHEAPER THN THE "STREET PHARMACIST".ONCE STARTING @ THE CLINIC MY LIFE WAS COMING BCK TOGETHER!I WAS ABLE TO GET THROUGH MY WHOLE SHIFT W/ OUT FEELING AS IF I WAS GONNA JUST BREAK AS WELL AS GETTING MY GPA BCK TO 3.8.AFTER A YR IN TREATMENT I ACTUALLY STARTED TO WEEN DOWN MY DOSE & UNFORTUNATELY DURING THT PROCESS I HAD GOTTEN PREGNANT.I WAS SO SCARED & DIDNT KNW WHT TO THINK & MY DOCTOR RE-ASSURED ME THT MY SON WOULD BE JUST FINE & THT CONTINUING TO COME OFF THE METHADONE WOULD JUST HARM MY SON & I WOULD MOST DEF MIS-CARRY & I COULDNT EVEN IMAGINE GOING THROUGH THT PAIN AGAIN.SO AS I SIT HERE & TYPE THIS,MY SON IS NEXT TO ME ON THE COUCH READING @ A 3RD GRADE LEVEL(HE WILL BE STARTING 1ST GRADE IN A CPL WKS)MY SON IS VERY INTELLIGENT,U WOULD NVR GUESS THT HE TOO SOMETIMES GETS VERY FRUSTRATED WHN READING OR DOING A MATH PROBLEM FOR THE 1ST TIME & IT DOESNT COME TO HIM RIGHT AWAY,BUT I LATER LEARNED THT JUST BC A CHILD GETS FRUSTRATED WHN NOT GETTING SOMETHING RIGHT AWAY DONT AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME SOMETHINGS WRONG W/ THEM!BC NOT ONLY KIDS BUT ADULTS AS WELL DO NOT LIKE THE FACT WHN SOME THINGS DONT COME TO THEM EASY RIGHT AWAY,ITS JUST A PART OF THEIR CHARACTER.HAVE I EVER IN THE PAST QUESTIONED IF IT HAD SOMETHING TO DO W/ METHADONE,DEFINITELY!HOWEVER IT IS NOT AT ALL ASSOCIATED W/ ME TAKING METHADONE WHILE PREGNANT.I WAS ACTUALLY WORRIED AT ONE TIME THT MY SON HAD A.D.D, BC I WAS DIAGNOSED IN 3RD GRADE & STILL SUFFER FROM IT.BUT THANK GOD HE HAD THE A.D.D/A.D.H.D TEST & PASSED W/ FLYING COLORS.WHN MY SON WAS A TODDLER I WAS SO WORRIED THT HE WASNT DEVELOPING RIGHT SO I HAD SPECIALISTS TEST HIS MOTOR SKILLS,SPEECH,ETC. & THEY CONCLUDED THT HE NOT ONLY WAS WHR HE NEEDED TO BE BUT A LIL ABOVE SCHEDULE!TO HEAR THT NEWS WAS HEAVEN TO MY EARS.MY SISTER HAS A SON,NVR DID DRUGS,NVR SMOKED A CIG A DAY IN HER LIFE,IS A HEALTH FREAK & EXERCISES DAILY & MY NEPHEW HAS ALL TYPES OF ISSUES SUCH AS; A VERY BAD TEMPER,MILD A.D.H.D,& DIDNT START TALKING UNTIL ALMOST 3;( ALTHOUGH HE HAS THESE PROBLEMS,HE DOES GET BETTER & BETTER AS HE CONTINUES 2 WORK W/ HIS THERAPISTS & TIMES PASSES.SO MY WHOLE POINT TO ALL U JUDGING BASTARDS IS THT METHADONE OR NOT DURING PREGNANCY A CHILD ALWAYS HAS THE CHANCE OF HAVING ISSUES B4 & AFTER BIRTH!AS MATTER OF FACT;MY SISTER IN LAW FOUND OUT SHE WAS PREGNANT & 2 WKS LATER FOUND OUT SHE HAD STAGE 3 BREAST CANCER!SHE WAS ASSURED THT THE MILD PAIN MEDS THT WERE AVAILABLE TO HER THROUGH TREATMENT WOULD HVE LIL TO NO AFFECT ON THE BABY,SHE WAS A SOLDIER & TOOK NOTHING,HOWEVER SHE ISNT THE ONLY WOMAN THT HAS HAD TO FACE HAVING CANCER WHILE BEING PREGNANT & MANY OTHERS IN HER SHOES HAVE TO TAKE THE OPIATES BC OF MASSIVE PAIN.IMAGINE GOING THRU CHEMO & PREGNANCY AT THE SAME TIME,CANT SAY U WOULDNT TAKE YOUR PRESCRIBED MEDS UNTIL YOUR FACED W/ IT!!1 LAST THING!F.Y.I:OPIATES ARE THE LEAST HARMFUL SUBSTANCE DURING PREGNANCY WHILE ALCOHOL IS THE MOST!HOPE MY STORY CAN HELP PPL,I WOULD BE HAPPY IF MY MSG JUST GOT ACCROSS TO JUST 1 PERSON!DONT BEAT YOURSELF UP!EVERY1 HAS SKELETONS,DIFF ABOUT US IS WE WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO LET OURS BE KNOWN FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILD!GOOD LUCK & GOD BLESS
my son will be a year old in ten days and when i had him i was on 115 mg only that high b.c he was taking most of the methadone.. he did not have to be put on morphine, he is a very strong lil guy! yet he has no teeth still i have a friend n her son is 8 months born on methadone and still does not have teeth as well i will have to talk to other moms that had babys on methadone and see how long it took to get teeth or if its just us! every baby is different even tho i was on 115 this friend of mine was on 40 n her son was put on morphine so like i said every baby is different every dr i have been to says my son is very ahead n since day one hhis muscles are very strong the dr says and his leg muscles are the strongest he have been walking since 9 months and has been running around everywhere for last month. he still falls but every child will fall even during the first few months of getting used to walking . he picked it up in seriously not even a week, he hated being in his walker! held his head up before i even brought him home he was in the hosp. for 6 days after being born. he was sitting up at2 months was eatting baby food at 3 was pullinf his self up at 4 and right after started crawling, never did the army crawl, right right up on his hands n knees and just went! my lil man makes me so proud everyday!!!!
as well he was two weeks and a day early and weight 5 pounds and 9 ounces but i know this is due to me not being able to hold anything down! i was throwing up alll day alll night not being of the methadone just the pregnancy
my son was born on 115 mg and wasnt put on morphine n was in the hosp, for 6 days and did great! i could tell he was withdrawing but by the 6 days his scores were 3's n 4 and consitit 7 and 8 is when they put a baby on morphine n he only had a 7 once! every baby different my friend had her sone on 40 mg n he was in the nicu for a month on morphine and thank god everyday for a healthy babyboy!
I am an aunt to two beautiful kids whom I now have custody of them both. They spent almost two years in a foster home 3 states away from us. The boy is 5 and the girl is 3. It took that long for that state to give up on the parents. The social workers in their state told us that they both were special needs children. We still however went and got them and the moment I saw them I was in love. These are my brothers children and they were born addicted to everything especially the girl who was taken at birth. They removed the boy at the same time the girl tested positive. She had opiates and several other things in her system. The boy had several issues. He had poor muscle control. He was almost 4 and was not potty trained. Didn't even know what a potty was. He was all over the place and hyper not to mention fell all over the place because of poor muscle control. He is interesting though because he was so so very smart talked 100 miles a minute and is so very loving. I took him to the neurologist and he said add and of course shouted drugs! I don't believe in medicating a child especially who was born with an addicted start. one night I just sat in his room and watched him sleep. I prayed and an over whelming comfort came over me. We started physical therapy... I had him potty trained in less then a month. he graduated from physical therapy in a year and now a child who couldn't run, balance, jump, climb like a normal 4 year old now can do it all. Come to find out the foster parents that had him were so focused on what could be wrong with him that they didn't even give him a shot. He had never been to a park, he had never been in publics eye other then school his last few months and they locked him in a room when they were tired of him. He didn't get to eat with the family. On his first day there a baby who at the time not two yet and always slept with his parents was thrown in a dark room in a port a crib which he slept in for almost 2 years. I have had him for 1 and a half years. He is so smart! He can right his name.. He has slowed down tremendously though he still talks a lot it isn't near as bad. He actually gets attention and he is loved very much.. It is amazing what happens when they are given a chance... His little sister was in the hospital for quit some time. She had several blood transfusions in her first few months of life and suffered trimmers up until 6 months after I got her. They were not bad by the time I got her. She also has muscle delays for the same reasons as her brother. She is a little hyper but I do not know a lot of three year old children that are not. She to has an extremely good vocabulary like her brother and she is very, very smart. I have learned that if you look for something to be wrong and put them under a magnify glass and treat them as such they may think in their own minds there is something wrong along with anyone you tell your story to. Their first teacher I told the whole story to and every day there was a complaint and so much negativity. I chose not to tell the next teacher right away and they were treated like the other "NORMAL" kids. They grew to be more normal! I think the foster home wanted something to be wrong because they honestly get a bigger check for special needs kids. when they took him to the dr to be looked over all they said was wrong was that he had post traumatic stress syndrome! Imagine that. Love them... treat them like they are normal... and pray... Not saying nothing will pop up eventually because it could but they have been an amazing addition to our family.
Good luck to you
move forward and make a better life for them
"If you are so worried about your child and side effects, dont have the child."
I assume this sentence means you are pro-choice. In which case, you should know better than to tell a woman that she should not have had her child. It is HER CHOICE. not yours or anyone else's.
I guess the question is is there any medical proof saying that methadone causes any long term disabilities, and do you think are doctor has any right to say methadone is what has most likley caused his autisim, which is why we had him tested for, her diagnosis was not autisim, but defenate behavior issues, we had 3 doctors assure us there is no reason your child will not be totaly healthy, so if there is no direct proof methadone causes behavious issues our doctor who had him tested is way out of line bringing methadone up at all, am i right???
I too, have a newborn granddaughter; addicted to methadone; still in NICU; now for almost seven weeks. I appreciate your sharing of experiences. If the mother is unable to get her addiction under control, I plan on bringing this child into my home. I believe I am more patient now, than when I was raising my two boys. I also would like to commend you on the statement about "never walked in your shoes". I am not here to judge anyone. I don't know what it's like to live your life, bringing you to the point of doing heroine I feel bad for anyone who's life was so ... whatever it was to drive you to do heroine. I'd like to ask you a couple of questions, if I may? When it was introduced to you, what happened to the thought of, "this is a powerful, addictive drug. Do I really want to spend the rest of my life addicted to a drug that controls my every thought and action" ? Or did you not have that thought? Guess I had too many plans for the future and I didn't want to be a zombie. Did you ever look at someone who had been on heroine for any long period of time, before you tried it? I was introduced to a man one time, when I was about 12 years old, who was only 28, but who had been on heroine for three years. He looked to me old before his time and had sores all over his face. Guess maybe that's what kept me from "trying it just once", when it was introduced to me as a young adult. I was lied to, and told, "it won't hurt you to try it ONE time". So on second thought, guess it can play a good part. It turned me against EVER trying it. Actually, I'd like to gather some information from anyone who might like to talk about what they believe may have led them to going against their better judgment and "trying it anyway".
Thank you for sharing!! Way to go!!
That's an awesome story!! Thank you for sharing.