Questions about Cholestasis...?

[EmersonAilidh]

My Dad & I went out for my birthday dinner tonight. Any of you with Valentine's babies understand why birthday dinners always come the day after, haha. Yay for hummus & red coconut rice curry.

 

Anyway. I started asking about my little sister Millicent's hearing. I know I've talked to Peggie about her, but Millicent basically just speaks really, really weird & has a hard time actually verbalizing stuff. She's three years old & no one can tell whether she's TRYING to talk & just failing or whether she's just not making real words sometimes. Dad told me that hearing was fine & then launched into a really interesting story that I didn't know about before tonight...

 

My stepmom has her babies at home. No pain meds, completely natural, the whole nine yards. She's a pro. But apparently when Millicent was born, there was some weird complication & Mihstiegh (my stepmom) ended up having to have her labor induced in a hospital. You can imagine how happy she was about that. When Millicent was actually delivered, the obstetrician found that there was a lot of fecal matter(Meconium) in the amniotic fluid. He said that in twenty years of delivering babies, he had only seen that once before & that the baby died at 8.5 months old. Hardly comforting. They discovered that Mihstiegh had really bad "Itchy Mom's Syndrome" & that her kidneys were failing & had been for quite a while.

 

When they told her that one of the most recognizable symptoms were hands so itchy that pregnant Moms would scratch them until they bled, Mihstiegh remembered having had that with my ten year old brother Abram (who is Autistic & mentally retarded), the baby before Millicent (who was her only miscarriage after all of these children), &, of course, Millicent. They've had one more child since then, a chunky little girl named Hadassah that we call "Large & in charge". A week before she was born Mihstiegh's midwife realized that she had run the wrong test... & that Mihstiegh did actually have the kindey problems yet again. So far Hadassah is better than fine, though. 9 months old, sitting up, babbling on & on & on...

 

 

 

 

 

Could there be a relationship between kidney problems & later developmental problems in kids who make it to birth?

[MichaelTampa]

Complicated situation and question. I don't have the knowledge/training to really know about all that, but, speaking in generalities, the kidney is important for detoxing. If it's not working, I would expect more heavy metals (and whatever else the kidney might detox) to be circulating around the mother, and perhaps/likely to enter the child. Heavy metals are never good for the neurological system and all that it tries to do, and certainly can impact a child's development. So, I think, generally, they could relate. How likely they would be to relate, specifically, don't know.

[bronxmom2]

This caught my eye because I had cholestasis with both my pregnancies. I thought it was my liver that wasn't working, not my kidneys, I honestly don't know if it's related to anything developmental.

My PANDAS son is (or was) developmentally way ahead, my younger child is less verbal but OK.