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Judy Ritchie <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 4 Jul 2004 20:27:04 -0700
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Jennifer, my brother who is now 45 had asthma symptoms when he was born in
Pittsburgh PA in 1959 via C-section.  He had his tonsils out when he was
younger than 2.  We had tile laid on all our floors and had a woman come every
day to mop the floors and wash the curtains and anything else washable once a
week.

His diagnosis and first inhaler came in Bath, England in 1996 after the death of
his English wife from breast cancer that she fought for six years.  The thought
of raising his 9 & 11 year old girl and boy alone in a foreign country was of
great stress to him.  He called me at 3am his time not being able to breathe. 
Bath is a bad city for asthma due to historic Bathstone buildings made with it,
which is very porous limestone that is constantly eroding from acid rain.  

Really, I attribute his childhood allergies and breathing problems that would
have been diagnosed these days as childhood asthma, to my mothers regrets of
having a second child.  He and I are 13 years apart.  My mother begged my
father for a second child after her sister visited from Sweden bragging about
her boy.  Once pregnant my mother felt she might have made a bad choice for
herself.  

She had no pregnancy illness.  But once labor gegan, she never dilated properly.
 She labored for 48 hours and then had a C-section.  The OB/GYN was very
disappointed because my brother was positioned perfectly for birth, sitting
tailor seat upside down, as I was told.  My father did not understand as she
had had me in Germany after WWII at age 20 with no complications.  She
committed suicide when my brother was 13.

My neighbor who has seven children from the same husband had a #5 child, a son
who also had asthma.  My brother and this son of hers had the some allergy
feature of childhood swollen eyes under the orb and they actually looked like
brothers in childhood photos.

My neighbor said her husband gave her a hard time with #5 because he thought
they were done and it was her job to take care of birth control.  She felt
guilty for having #5 and displeasing her husband.  

My take is that breathing difficulties, especially in male children, can be from
the mother not wanting the pregnancy.
Judy Ritchie

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