Someone wrote:  "allergist Doris Rapp wrote in I believe 1990 ("Is This your
Child?") that children with different kinds of behavioral problems,
especially ADHD, often were 'kickers' in the womb, and had
bouts of hiccoughing every day. This is almost always a reaction to the
mother drinking a lot of milk because she wants to eat a healthy food,
according to Rapp. (If she stops drinking milk, the behavior in the womb
stops.) These are then the colic-babies, and later, the hyperactive kids . .
. - Rapp wrote this in the early 1990s -- why hasn't this knowledge become
mainstream?

Wow.  I have certainly never heard this before.  Bizarre idea.  I had one
major kicker/hiccougher -- my first child, my daughter Miranda.  She didn't
have colic and has never been hyperactive.  In fact, everyone in my family
is hypo-active.  Meaning we're all couch potatoes.  My second child was very
calm in the womb, no kicking.  I use to call him my Tai Chi kid, after
Miranda, my karate kid.  Of course, he is the one who has Down Syndrome.
Also no colic, no hyperactivity.  Third child was in-between in the womb, no
colic, no hyperactivity.  Of course, this is only a sample size of 3, not
scientific at all.

Has there been any real *research* on Rapp assertion, or just her theory?

Kathy Dettwyler


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