You should do an interview with an adult who has FASD, I try to look up resources for adults with FASD and there's not much out there. Most focuses on the parents and how to raise a child with it but these children grow up and they still need help and recogniton as adults.
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I sent you an email. I drank quite heavily with my first daughter - I was young and didn’t know (or show) until I was about 6 months along!
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You should really voice distort and blur, even if the women are ok being recorded. It will be needed protection for their private life.
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My mom drank and smokes with both my brother and I. She didn’t stop until my brother was 2 and she was so drunk she didn’t remember driving home. My brother had a host of mental and learning issues and eventually took his life. I am most likely austic and struggle every day. Please share your story to help other women choose better.
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After reading these comments since I am thinking of having a second child and I am cleaning my home, I should just avoid alcohol from now until the child is with me. This sounds scary. I am not pregnant yet so maybe just really put a limit on it and once I start trying to conceive…then to completely cut the alcohol out.
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I went to HS with a girl who has FAS. Her mother was an alcoholic who drank if she was awake. She blacked out regularly & almost burned the house down on numerous occasions due to starting to cook then blacking out. Her daughter has significant developmental delay. She’s an adult now in her 40s but has the mental capacity of an 8 to 10 year old. She also has a host of respiratory problems because an addict is often addicted to more than one substance & in this case it was tobacco.
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Im happy to participate if you expand to other drugs. I was on legal medications for both kids and my son was seriously impacted. I worked a ton on fasds and know that alcohol is the most harmful teratogenic drug of abuse out there but never knew that my son would be harmed by my meds
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So i I grew up in foster care. From the ages of 5 to 19. And I would see kids that or alcoholic babies and as they got older, how they had issues on top of it my mom also had other children after me from drugs and alcohol, abuse and I was in those children’s lives for a while and it’s really sad to see the struggles they have in life. The infant baby that was in one of the foster homes with me, we shared a room he cried a lot. He was an alcoholic baby, and he was taken away at birth from his birth mother, and he cried all the time for no reason at all sometimes I asked my foster mother why the baby cried so much what was wrong with him and she told me it’s because the mom drank a lot of alcohol when she was pregnant with him and he’s going through withdrawals of the alcohol and stuff and it’s really hard and it hurts him. I said well isn’t there medicine he can take and she’s like I’m already giving it to him, but it’s not really helping that much. I felt so bad for that baby. I still remember that baby to this day I did leave that foster home so I don’t know how things turned out for him, but my mother proceeded my biological mother proceeded to do drugs while she was pregnant with her last four children, and the one right after me which was seven year age difference he has a hard time comprehending and reading what he read, and he has a hard time, taking any kind of test and actually sitting down and studying for that test. He also has dyslexia and on top of it he was the shortest guy out of his friends also and he always hated that. I also noticed he has a lot of self-control issues. The child next after him which was a female and she was born about three years after him she has her toenails missing from her feet and she has a low IQ. They took an IQ test and I think she scored like 68. I believe it was 68 it was somewhere in the mid high 60s and she always had trouble learning. She also has a lot of issues with self control and she has a hard time understanding her limits and it’s really unusual to see and then there’s a female, but my mother got off of drugs for a period of time and that child was born normal. The next child she had she did both drugs and alcohol like on a massive scale, where that baby was taken away from her at the hospital because he had a multitude of issues and even when she was giving birth to him, she was on drugs and alcohol and she saw the baby and she’s like oh my God I don’t want that and I also believe my mom should’ve never had children becauseshe was mentally retarded and she had a low IQ. Also, she never raised any of the eight children, she birthed she was highly responsible and she was not a drug baby either or an alcoholic baby.
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I work as a teacher aide in a special school in a more disadvantaged area of the city, there are a number of kids there with FAS. It’s really devastating to see.
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Thank you for doing this! FASD is so common (1 in 20) and has a myriad of effects on the body depending on when it is consumed. I have an adult son with it. I am in a support group and see so many feelings from birth parents once they find out. The important part to me is education to prevent if possible or deal with the effects once the child is born. I will post your request in my support group to see if anyone is interested in participating. Again, thank you for educating the world!
2 months ago | 5
I am really looking forward to this video! If you make this a series by interviewing people who used different types of substances during pregnancy, I would be super interested to watch it. Also, I am an adult child of a mother used methamphetamine until she was six months pregnant with me. She didn’t know she was pregnant until the six month mark due to amenorrhea from the meth use. If it is anonymous, I would be willing to talk, and she might be willing to as well.
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Pleeeease leave everyone anonymous, for their safety
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I was taking steroids, drank and then found out i. 3 months pregnant. I was seeking advice on if abortion would be the right way to "protect" the baby...unfortunatelly i was recommended an abortion and ghat it woild be the right way to do...it would have been my first child.
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I was a cryptic pregnancy so my mother did drink alcohol (somehow I'm healthy today!) I'm just wondering if you'd still like me to ask her? Since she didn't know she was having me.
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Children of mothers that drank might be more willing or able to discuss it than the drinking mothers. My mom drank during my pregnancy, partially because she didn't realize she was pregnant until the second trimester and partially because she had a somewhat... Creative interpretation of what "not drinking" means ("frozen drinks don't have alcohol" is a very hilarious take).
2 months ago | 11
Really enjoying your channel so far and how you teach your audience. I was just wondering, would you do something similar to other illnesses/issues as well?
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I’ve always wondered what mothers would find harder: having drank and keeping the baby or having drank and giving it up. Sorry if it doesn’t make much sense, I just needed the thought out lol
2 months ago | 0
Dr Sermed Mezher
I'm looking to interview a mother who has drank alcohol during pregnancy and the impact that has had on them or their baby (if any) with the reasons behind it.
I would like to record it and then upload it as part of a long form piece of work on the topic and you would be helping potentially thousands of women by sharing your perspective.
If you would be willing to take part/don't mind being recorded then can you e-mail me on hello@sermedmezher.com
Thank you in advance,
Sermed
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