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Can a child present with FAS, dFAS or FAE who doesn’t have small head circumference, low birth weight, stu?

  • Posted on September 12, 2010 at 2:18 pm

My step-daughter is almost four with a very bad temper. While her sister is quite attractive, they look nothing alike. Their mother hid the entire pregnancy and binge drank vodka. The child is almost four now and still has screaming fits. She is easily angered. She bites herself and grabs her own head in anger. She has epicanthal folds, and something looks off about her face-like somewhat underdeveloped. When it came to birth weight she was normal-more than 7 lbs. Also, her growth doesn’t appear stunted at all. Her speech seems a bit under-developed however. I know some impediments are normal and the inability to pronounce some letters as well. However she seems to fail at annunciating properly a lot of her words. You can understand what she is saying but it sounds muffled. The father has the children five days a week. The mother binge drank vodka on mulitple about four occasions(well those that was the # of witnessed incidents) during the second half of pregnancy. He is not even sure he is the father seeing as not only did the mother cheat, she did not seek out any medical attention throughout the pregnancy. Her Dad brought her to an assessment group at a well-known hospital and they ruled it out but some of the people he was seeing were still students with pending pHDs-not medical students. Also I have read a dysmorphologist is needed to distinguish characteristics. I wish I knew a dysmorphologist.
I’m talking about Fetal Alchol Syndrome.

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Can a child present with FAS, dFAS or FAE who doesn’t have small head circumference, low birth weight, stu?

  • Posted on September 11, 2010 at 8:18 pm

My step-daughter is almost four with a very bad temper. While her sister is quite attractive, they look nothing alike. Their mother hid the entire pregnancy and binge drank vodka. The child is almost four now and still has screaming fits. She is easily angered. She bites herself and grabs her own head in anger. She has epicanthal folds, and something looks off about her face-like somewhat underdeveloped. When it came to birth weight she was normal-more than 7 lbs. Also, her growth doesn’t appear stunted at all. Her speech seems a bit under-developed however. I know some impediments are normal and the inability to pronounce some letters as well. However she seems to fail at annunciating properly a lot of her words. You can understand what she is saying but it sounds muffled. The father has the children five days a week. The mother binge drank vodka on mulitple about four occasions(well those that was the # of witnessed incidents) during the second half of pregnancy. He is not even sure he is the father seeing as not only did the mother cheat, she did not seek out any medical attention throughout the pregnancy. Her Dad brought her to an assessment group at a well-known hospital and they ruled it out but some of the people he was seeing were still students with pending pHDs-not medical students. Also I have read a dysmorphologist is needed to distinguish characteristics. I wish I knew a dysmorphologist.
I’m talking about Fetal Alchol Syndrome.

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