Any of you born premature?

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I had the SAME deal! If I was my mothers doctor, and cared for the child(which was me!) I would have let her go to term, and done a C-section. I was a BIG baby. Instead, it was natural but BEFORE the due date(induced). SAME reason! My mother wanted HER doctor, who was going on vacation, to deliver me. 8-(

This is an interesting topic. I was born at only 6 months and was in the hospital for a couple months there after. My mom was told I wouldn't walk,talk or live to be a year old. (As of 2008 I am walking,talking and am 22 years old and overall healthy.)

Not me.

Looking back, I'd say I was born about thirty years postmature.

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No, it wasn't my mother's decision, it was her doctor who wanted to make sure she was the one to deliver me (and get paid for it). So she talked Mom into it. If I thought it really did have anything to do with my AS, and if she were still alive, and if there wasn't some statute of limitations that has probably run out, a malpractice suit might be an option. I still think AS is genetic, but it is interesting that there are this many premies.

What you said your mother's doctor did, if she did it 100% that way, could have destroyed her career, so I don't even know if that is 100% true.(She probably DID get your mother's approval)

Still, I meant we were both born about as early because our birth was induced because the doctor was going on vacation. THAT was similar enough.

Yes. I was born about 2 months premature and weighed somewhere around 3 to 3 1/2 pounds.

I have writen an article about pregnancy, stress (adrenaline and testosterone) and autism. It is here on WP under the title "This is Autism"

Star

I was the opposite actually. I was born almost two weeks late.

Idunno, seems like it's about 50/50.

Certainly not as huge as the lazy eye thread.

I was born several weeks late, and was also a really heavy baby at about 10 pounds!

i was born several weeks late, but weighed only 5 lbs.
my mom always says that when I came out of the womb, it seemed as though my hands and feet were underdeveloped.

I am a preemie, too.

I read an article in Science once about what happens to the brains of preemies. There is a pruning that goes in in utero which we miss.

It can cause genius. In my case, clearly not

But it can

I was born right on time-November 10.

A few days late, I believe, but I'm not actually sure. I've heard that it was a quick, non-traumatic, and mostly unremarkable delivery.