Small birth weight from gestational malnutrition and suicide?
Why do adoptees have a slightly higher incident of depression, Is there a connection to perinatal factors?
Was your child a low birth weight baby?
Does small birth weight and other perinatal factors affect risk of suicide? It appears to show up stronger in males.
http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/bjprcpsych;179/5/450
“Foetal under nutrition predisposes men to depression in late adult life. If replicated, these results would suggest a neurodevelopmental aetiology of depression, possibly mediated by programming of the hypothalamic—pituitary—adrenal axis.”
Tagged with: Birth • From • gestational • malnutrition • Small • Suicide • Weight
Filed under: Perinatal Depression
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you know, i don’t believe ANY of these studies because they are all supported by the Pharmacuetical company. so they are all wrong, EXCEPT for the one that talks about Adoptees and their pain.
can you direct me to those?
Doubtful. I was a whopper. So lets see- you “sorta” think that adoptees can have depression, and can commit suicide, but those things are caused by the actions of their first parents. Right….anything you can do to make yourself look like the better Mommy, huh? Guess what- we see through it, and your child does, too.
ummmmm…nooo….not in my children’s cases. My eldest daughter (surrendered) and my second daughter weighed exactly the same…7 lbs 8 1/2 oz. Both were born healthy. I ate well thru both pregnancies. No alcohol or drug usage either.
ETA: Rosie…exactly what point are you trying to prove, drive home, with your most current several questions?? Truly I am interested.
Gestational malnutrion? I doubt it…I was well-cared for, had my own private physician, ate well, gained 22 pounds which was a good healthy weight for a petite(110pound) woman.
My baby weighed 7 pounds, exactly. He was alert, and comfortable with me. I fed him and cared for him until forced to part with him.
In re-union, 21 years later, he reported depression from being adopted. He told me that his adoptive “mother” gave him drugs when he was a toddler because he talked too much and asked her too many questions.
He told me the truth. I saw his baby book, and I saw the entry in her handwriting…how she couldn’t deal with him, and the drugs she gave him, and how the drugs ‘improved” him….gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..
There are large inequalities in our society where some have access to food and others do not. Blaming a birth mother for deliberately infecting her unborn child with “depressive disorders” through malnutrition largely excuses the environmental factors that play in ones life, of which we all contribute to in one way or another. Your argument also purports values on who should and shouldn’t have kids, where Darwinist opinions like yours breed racism – since most of the worlds babies who are born malnourished are of African origin. Or do you believe THOSE women should not get pregnant and have kids?
All your “questions” today revolve about Marie Osmond’s Adopted son committing suicide.
You’re using the “strawman argument” against those that are trying to acknowledge the issues surrounding his lifelong battle with depression and his adoption.
Wouldn’t it be healthier if you tried to learn something instead of dismissing it by trying to disregard reality.
My son was 6lbs 2ozs at birth. During pregnancy I suffered morning sickness throughout and eventually went virtually vegetarian for about the last two months of pregnancy as I couldn’t stand the taste of meat and poultry or the texture of it. I didn’t eat eggs either because they made me feel sick. Dairy products give me migraines if I have too much of that as well so had very little of that particularly from about 6 months into pregnancy.
Incidently I have suffered from depression since my teens due to certain events in my teens and having an emotionally abusive mother. This was aggravated by my son being adopted so certain times of the year have been really tough to deal with. I have also been suicidal and self harmed over the years.
My son does suffer with depression but he hasn’t mentioned ever feeling suicidal to me although I know that doesn’t mean he hasn’t so can’t comment.
What about infertile women and anger?
http://humrep.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/11/2986
Or infertile women and psychological disorders?
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/00048677209159701?cookieSet=1&journalCode=anp
http://www.womensmentalhealth.org/specialty-clinics/infertility-and-mental-health/
Get over it lady. You did not give birth to the child you covet. Some other woman did. That child also has another mother. I feel sorry for your adopted child/ children…
ADOPTION CAUSES PAIN for the child and the MOTHER who lost the child
THANK YOU SUNNY.
My husband was adopted. His depression was caused by the American system of adoption that kept his true heritage a secret, and treated him like a second-class citizen (he couldn’t even get a copy of his own birth certificate, something anyone NOT adopted can do with relative ease.)
Fortunately, his adopted mother knew the name of his birth mother and where she’d been born. So he got a copy of HER birth certificate (a little fudging required
and learned who his grandparents and his mother’s siblings are.
He found his ENTIRE birth family this way. We visit them often; lovely people, and strangely enough, they live only about fifty miles away from the vast majority of my family.
It is necessary for the rights and dignity of the child to be preserved as well as the rights of the birth parents; when your rights and dignity are repeatedly quashed, it is depressing, and depression is one of the leading causes of suicide in the US.
PS: excellent, Sunny! My husband and I are thinking of adopting — but it will be an open adoption, because if I truly love a child, why would I keep his dignity and heritage from him/her?!
It seems as though you are implying that mothers who surrender don’t take proper care of themselves during their pregnancy… wow.
My son was born premature at 32 weeks 4 days gestation, he weighed 5lbs 3oz. A normal fetus will gains about a half a pound per week in the last two months. Do the math, he was FAR from malnourished lol. Almost two months early and was still at the 3rd percentile for height and weight and the 91st percentile for head circumference for a TERM delivery. I weighed in at 7lbs6oz at birth, a very normal birth weight, and have suffered depression most of my life so how does your theory account for that?
This one makes a lot of sense. Gestational malnutrition can cause a lot of problems. My younger son has some health conditions due to gestational malnutrition (per the medical specialists. I don’t have his actual birth weight). Of course, he would still have those conditions whether or not he had been adopted because it had nothing to do with adoption.
I’m taking your point to mean that there are other causes of depression and suicidal ideation besides adoption. You are very correct. There are many risk factors for depression.
You know…you could be onto something there. A lot of us ADOPTEES don’t know what weight we were because we’re denied access to basic info like that.