My Son at 14 Our History and The Long Term Effects That Pitocin Has Had.

by Martha
(Gaithersburg, MD)

I am a Caucasian and was 34 yrs. old at the time of my pregnancy, my ex was 24 and Puerto Rican, looked African American. My Doctor was of Asian Indian decent. This was my fifth live pregnancy. It's normal for the doctor to increase visits in the last two months from once a month to twice a month to, in the last month once a week till birth.

Well this doc. saw us once a month up till the end. Would weigh me and measure the fundus, for the most part.

I was for natural child birth. My first was this way. And then six yrs later with my second, they automatically hooked me up to the drip. Saying it was to help with after the birth for my uterus to clamp.

My first son was only 4 hours of labor and only 3 hrs hooked up to the drip. My second son was back up to 6 hrs. and hooked up the whole time to the drip.

My boys all had problems with anger and outburst, and I waited to start them in kindergarten at 7 and 6 and 6 1/2, respectively. The two older ones were on time and not induced'. They were also able to get a handle on themselves earlier on. My second son has had trouble in school right from kindergarten till now, a senior and 18. Even thou his reading level in middle school was 10th grade level.

At about 36 wks. the doctor did a sonogram and found that my sonss weight was about 6 lbs. 9 0z. And he stated that he felt it was necessary to schedule for an inducement, that he felt he would do better out than in. And then scheduled the inducement 5 days before his due date, which was about 3 wks. after the sonogram. I didn't feel comfortable with this, but went along with it. Now I regret it tremendously. It took six hours to be induced and when the nurse brought him to me, she handed to me and said here is your underweight baby.

Any obstetrician would know that the baby can avg. 1 lb. per week in the last month. Yet he made this call anyway, when my history was to carry for 38 to 39 wks. and had them at 8 lbs 4 or 5 oz. My eldest son was born on time and weighed 6 lbs 9 oz. This was the third attack, as I look at it, now in my pregnancy with my 14 yr. old. 1st the possible threat of down syndrome, and did we want to keep him, we choose yes and then the 2nd was the amniocentesis, extraction of fluid from my uterus, to determine if the enzyme was present, which was so close to his face and head.

I nursed all six of my children. So the bonding happened with that. But I knew something was different from day one when we got home. The only way we could console him or put him to sleep, was to put him in his rocker and stand over him and be a giant swing. Swinging him up high and then he would settle and go to sleep. When he would get angry as he got older, two and up about, he would make fist, arms straight down to his side and bring his head down toward his chest and look at you with his eyes sort of crossed at the top and growl at you in a demonic sort of way.

I home schooled him in k, 1st and 1/2 of second. And would always hide his writing book and in school, it was all they could do just to have him have a good day. I took him to a private Christian school in third, with only 6 in his class. Did better there but back to public in 4th and then was the same as second, just trying to have him have good days. Said he couldn't read, but I knew he could. Special Ed in 5th and 6th and was given an accommodation for calculator, a scribe, and computer as much as possible.

Had a counselor at my church start seeing him in second grade and he did some testing on his computer and determined he had Pitocin poisoning. But everybody else after that wouldn't entertain it as the problem that my son was doing this himself and needed to go to a special school which had daily counseling. We tried the counseling and nothing came of that. Would see the counselor for a time and say my son didn't need it anymore. Then this last year, a new counselor he had, goggled learning disabilities and Pitocin. A big eye opener. Confirmed all the 1st counselor had said, and was my son to the tee. ?Poor Handwriting,? was in the title.

He avoids school work like it?s the plague. He begged me to Home School him this year, because he didn't want to go back to his school, and have to deal with his teachers. (Which he felt weren't helping him and were doing the very things to the group that were telling them not to do). Well he's calmed down being at home. He has better control over his anger and outburst. Isn't so stressed, but still can't get him to do his work. Will read books that interest him, but that's about it.

He was raised on a vegan diet, because of lactose intolerance in the family and from the studies that show this the best thing all the way around. And can only imagine what his life would have been that much worse. But I'm at my wits end on how to school him and help him.