I had a VERY difficult birth. My mom developed eclampsia and then went into seizures. I was born "the color of a smurf" (dark blue), and was "huffing and puffing like a little steam engine". They didn't even show me to my mom, they immediately took me to ICU and intubated me. A couple hours after the birth they wheeled my mom up to the window, and she was shocked. I was like that for three whole days. Then I went home on the fifth day. Then I went BACK into the hospital on the 10th day because I threw up my milk, because I had horrible acid reflux. I almost died a second time, of starvation, before they figured out a formula that I could keep down. I had a collapsed lung when I was born, so I had to inflate it by huffing and puffing. Yeah, I had a really difficult time. My mom asked the doctors what the effects would be, and they said they didn't know. This was in 1974. When I went autistic at 16 mo the docs didn't know what was wrong, back then the "cold mothering" theory was all the rage and my mom was really sweet and caring so they couldn't see what was in front of their faces.