kahuna

My wife and I were talking about this tonight. She had pitocin with our first son, as he was a few days late. On the first day, after about 5 hours of natural labor, they tried to induce with pitocin. After 4 hours of pitocin, they decided to go home and try again the next day, while my wife was an absolute drugged up tired stressed out mess. Next morning, after more pitocin and an epidural, our son was born. He came out no breathing but they quickly took care of that. All was fine but as he grew older we started to notice that he was sensitive to many things - light, noise, smells, etc. He also had some serious separation anxiety issues. Bedtime was a disaster - we'd put him down and he'd wail for hours every night. We tried everything - Ferber, etc. We decided to co-sleep because we didn't want to exacerbate what he was going through When pre-school came around, we enrolled him but the separation anxiety kicked in full force. It was debilitating and hard to watch, so much so that we decided to pull him and home school. Kindergarten time came around and he was doing so well at home we decided to keep homeschooling. That was about 4 years ago (he's 9 now) and we're still homeschooling. It has been great - he's a super sensitive gifted kid, several years ahead of the academic and maturity curve. His sensory issues persisted however; he could not stand shirt tags so we cut them out, hated certain types of pants materials, many smells will made him nauseous, bright lights and loud noises were his enemy. About two years ago, we took him to see the doctor and he was diagnosed with sensory integration disorder, which was something completely new to us. The doctor recommended occupational therapy. He was in weekly therapy for over a year and it helped tremendously to the point where its all but gone! In speaking with other moms in the homeschooling group, my wife noticed a pattern whereby other kids with similar sensory issues were induced with pitocin. A common quality among these kids is that they are extremely bright, advanced educationally, very sensitive and often clingy and mature well beyond their age. I know that this is a bit of armchair doctoring but my feeling is that pitocin has some correlation to sensory integration. If you search on pitocin and sensory integration you will find that others suspect the same thing as we do. Happy parenting! Eric