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My answer is (a) Very Active. I played tennis into my 7th month with both boys.

I walked more as a pregnant person, than I do now. They both have\had sensory

integration dysfunction.

Liz Dunn\Mom to 7, (oro motor dyspraxia) and Wesley 4 1/2

mkbarden wrote:

> After attending last nights meeting at the Children's Hospital, the

> OT brought up something interesting regarding bedrest during

> pregnancy and SID. A few of us present at last nights meeting had

> high risk pregnancies where bedrest was necessary. I'm just curious

> to see how common this may or may not be. So if you have a moment,

> please answer the following question.

>

> How active were you during your pregnancy?

>

> a. Very Active

> b. Normal Activity

> c. Less Active

> d. Required Bed Rest

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Very active. Had an exceedingly active one year old, worked full

time at a golf driving range - shovelling, picking up balls, driving

tractor, weedwhacking, cutting lawns, then go home and do it all

there. , mom of riley, was severe now moderate apraxia

> After attending last nights meeting at the Children's Hospital, the

> OT brought up something interesting regarding bedrest during

> pregnancy and SID. A few of us present at last nights meeting had

> high risk pregnancies where bedrest was necessary. I'm just curious

> to see how common this may or may not be. So if you have a moment,

> please answer the following question.

>

> How active were you during your pregnancy?

>

> a. Very Active

> b. Normal Activity

> c. Less Active

> d. Required Bed Rest

>

>

>

>

> (Mother of 3.4 year old ph diagnosed with oral and verbal

apraxia)

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A. very active

for me. I worked out at the gym quite heavily up until the day I had

Cameron. Stairclimber, weights, running, you name it. I also raked all the

leaves out of the yard the day I had him. My 7 yr old has apraxia and SID.

Cheryl Cepek

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Hi and everyone!

Just like everything there will probably be both sides on the bed

rest/apraxia thing so I hope I can shed light on this (and

please feel free to jump in or correct -don't be shy!!)

I was at the CHERAB meeting too this past Monday where

Horvath MS OTR/L the Clinic Coordinator from Occupational Therapy

Consultants gave such a comprehensive and impressive presentation on

sensory integration dysfunction (DSI) and covered it in various areas

in such a way that many of us felt we were in a class -with slides,

hand outs and examples (the funniest being the mirror one with the

star where we were all hysterical laughing!) -so much so that Cheryl -

our award winning teacher VP was collecting information to present to

various school boards.

One point that teachers and parents will find of interest that many

of us fortunate enough to be there jumped on was how a child with

sensory issues will find ways to correct or secure their environment

in home or educational settings. For example - a child who requires

more input to get " ready to learn " may rock in their seat at school -

most teachers will say " stop rocking " and then the child is stopped

from doing the very thing that will help them. We as parents and

teachers can help by understanding the signs and strategies of

sensory issues. In other words -if the child is rocking and is in

danger of knocking over the chair the child has to be given an

alternative strategy. If the rocking is seen as a distraction to the

class but is not a danger to the child -then perhaps move the child

to an area of the room where he can continue to move without

disturbing the other children -or the teacher.

We didn't have enough time to go into all of the strategies which

called the " sensory diet " because of the time limit. We

asked , who is our OT consultant for CHERAB to come back to

present the " sensory diet " which will cover helpful strategies for a

child who has signs of DSI. I have to find out if I can post some of

the comprehensive handouts to our website or to here to our group.

The part about the bed rest came up not as part of 's

factual presentation -but as a comment she made by a parent of one of

the other OT's I believe who was put on bedrest -therefore she was

stating how the baby was not given the amount of movement stimulation

that most babies receive -so she compensated for it after birth by

providing her baby with lots of stimulation. Not a bad thing either

way. It was just a statement until one mother said " How interesting -

I was on bed rest too " very softly while was still talking

and then down the row - the mother next to her -and then the mother

next to that one that heard the comment said the same " Me too -I was

on bedrest " (and me being one of them) It was unusual since all

three of us were in a row and we all looked at each other with

a " hmmm " kind of look-like I wonder if that carries over to others?

Cheryl who was sitting next to me and heard also commented on how interesting.

It probably is worth looking into in a more comprehensive survey

at some point, so I believe that is on to something in asking

and it would be great if we could all answer and get a couple of

thousand responses.

Anyway along this direction I just had an IEP meeting for my 5 and a

half year old Tanner today. Other than the school 3 times a week ST

and the once a week OT also in school I've pulled him out of all

private therapy for the past few months and have not up till now

mentioned it here. I was trying something personally. Without

knowing any of this bed rest stuff -I enrolled Tanner in Karate twice

a week -swimming and ice skating once a week - increased his EPA by

extra supplementation with the ProEFA for the past two months -and

have been working on flash cards to teach sounds and letters and even

though we already have Nintendo for Tanner and Dakota we also

purchased him play station with a number of educational games on it -

and the ones they do have out there are great. We spend much time in

the educational toy stores -more than before. In other words I'm

overloading him right now on educational and gross motor activities

and we will start private ST again this summer (after I also take

Tanner for cranial osteopathy)

And the end result so far has been that

Tanner has had an amazing surge again -his talking has increased as

well as his clarity and confidence. It has been obvious to all -

family and friends as well as his teachers and therapists at school.

The OT at Tanner's school was commenting on how his body awareness

has increased in motor planning and how he now sits up tall in his

chair instead of leaning on the table like he did before. I highly

recommend karate to any child with apraxia -the school Tanner and

Dakota goes to understands Tanner's apraxia and hypotonia and they

encourage and work with him along with all of the other children.

I will keep you guys posted about when the second part of 's

presentation will be. Also in May, I spoke to the wonderful Kaufman, one

of the CHERAB

advisors http://www.kidspeech.com who will be coming in to do a

presentation for our May CHERAB meeting.

Hey -did anyone see Exceptional Parent magazine yet? Tanner's school had

copies of it and they were so excited too!

Talk to you all later!

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I was very active with my pregnancy with . I was taking care of my mom

who had brain cancer. Could it have been the stress? was born with no

problem coming in screaming at the dr lol.....

Diane..........mom, taxi driver,referee, piece maker

and cheerleader and #1 fan too ny 17, 15, 13

11, 10.....and special Auntie Nanny to Kayleigh 1

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Hi

I worked up till 4 weeks before was born. I am an early

childhood centre and carried out all the normal duties including

digging over the sandspit! I had a dreadful birth with a caesarian

being planned as he was so breech and I had already had a caeser with

my dd. So in we went first epidural didn't work 2nd one went up and

not down and my respiratory system shut down then an epidural block

and a generaly anesthetic and I was put on a respirator to breath and

was born given to hubby and I was in ICU for 5 hours till I

came round.

Hope this helps

Michele-

-- In @y..., " mkbarden " <mkbarden@o...> wrote:

> After attending last nights meeting at the Children's Hospital, the

> OT brought up something interesting regarding bedrest during

> pregnancy and SID. A few of us present at last nights meeting had

> high risk pregnancies where bedrest was necessary. I'm just curious

> to see how common this may or may not be. So if you have a moment,

> please answer the following question.

>

> How active were you during your pregnancy?

>

> a. Very Active

> b. Normal Activity

> c. Less Active

> d. Required Bed Rest

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I was normally active during my pregnancy. There seem to be some

similarities in replies to the survey - I was also induced because I was 2

weeks overdue, but ended up with a C-section. Could petocin (SP?) be a

common denominator? And I also had a bad reaction to the epidural - my blood

pressure dropped dangerously low and I was totally paralyzed from the

shoulders down - I felt like I couldn't breathe. Also, I think some other

mothers also mentioned lethargy in utero - the doctor always had to use a

buzzer on me to " wake up " my daughter to get the heartbeat. I guess many

people have awful delivery experiences, with totally " normal " kids, but these

coincidences seem odd.

Barbara

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About the pitocin factor that has come up. To add to my very active

reply before, I want to comment on the pitocin and epidural - I have

3 children, one gifted/ld (8), one severe/moderate apraxic (6), one ?

(seems fine so far but only 4).

I had perfectly normal pregnancies and births. 2 were born on their

due dates, the gifted one (my first) was born 6 days late. All three

births were almost identical. 4-6 hours long, and totally and

completely drug free. No pitocin, no painkillers and no epidurals.

I wanted those who are worrying to know this so that they aren't

blaming themselves for any thing done during childbirth. We can't do

that to ourselves.

--- In @y..., " Tammy Ingram " <tammyplus4@m...>

wrote:

> Hello all

>

> I had not planned on responding to the survey but since my

situation is so different than those that responded I felt the need.

I will break the pattern you all our putting together here. I have 4

children, 2 with speech problems 2 without. Well the 2 with problems

were the easiest VBAC's a mom could have!! The 1st child was C-

section & the other was with petocin & a epidural that did not take

on the left side. And she talks more than all 3 kids put together!

>

> I was very active with (now apraxic 3.10 yr) until about

7weeks before his due date. I was suppose to be on bedrest but was

unable since there was no one to take care of my 2 yr. old daughter.

I did take trabutaline ( can't remember how it was spelled) &

came 3 1/2 weeks early. So who knows what the connection here is

with all of this???

>

> Tammy I. in FL mom to apraxic, 6, 17 stuttered

severly until about 13, 21

>

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I wanted to comment on the level of activity:

\I also had twins that I never felt while I was pregnant!!!!! I could not

even do a stress test....I could feel nothing no movement.....occasionally a

roll!!!!! Also had terrible reaction to the spinal.....blood pressure dropped

and started to throw up everywhere....also frozen from shoulders down!!!!

Combated the reaction with two other meds ( don't know what) and then I was

fine....it does seem strange that there are these coincidences!!

Hugs,

, MOM to Aidan & Devlin former 30 weeker preemies, now 2 years,

global delays, NO speech!!

MOMMY desperate to hear the word.

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