Thursday, March 10, 2011
ADHD is often diagnosed when a child reaches school age although many parents say they knew something was "wrong" or "different" for several years before that. Because there is no physical diagnostic test for ADHD, parents, even when concerned, have no way of having their child tested for ADHD u...
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My daughter as a baby was the opposite of all the symptoms listed in this article and she turned out to have ADHD crazy style. She was a very, very active baby in utereo and I haven't always wondered about that.
Interesting stuff though, always trying to understand this condition and how to deal with it.
A recent research study in the Journal of Pediatrics looked at 980,000 Danish children born between 1988 and 2001. The study shows a connection between the Apgar score a baby gets just minutes after birth and the likelihood of that baby developing symptoms of ADHD later in life.
You can view the reserach at the following link:
http://blogs.babble.com/strollerderby/2011/02/18/adhd-and-apgar-score-study-finds-link-between-newborn-health-and-attention-deficit/
Lauren
Thanks for your comments. I quite honestly can't remember what my son's Apgar scores were, it was so long ago. But it is all very interesting. I think with the continuing research we will understand even more about this condition in the years to come.
Eileen