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Low birth weight a factor in diabetes

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Nicky1970

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Well according to tonight's Horizon, anyway.

So I didn't help myself by entering the world a lowly 4lb 6oz.
 
I was 8 pounds, although I had trouble eating for the first 6 months and couldn't keep anything down, so I remained very small. Weetabix saved my life because mu mum discovered I could keep it down! 🙂

This is all very well, but it's not as though we had anything to do with how big we were in the womb!
 
Just add it to the ever growing list of possible causes! 🙄

Personally, I was a bog standard birth weight.

Andy 🙂
 
Well according to reports duk referred to in response to radio 4 programme last week it was linked to high birth weight and high bmi as a baby! Ben was a healthy 8lb 9 at birth and admittedly grew very well but was only on breast milk so ??????
Personally I think it's all related to whether or not the moon was in Aquarius , whether you are the 7th child of the 7th child and how many ladders your mother walked under while pregnant!! Think anyone will fund my study??
 
ruthelliot said:
Well according to reports duk referred to in response to radio 4 programme last week it was linked to high birth weight and high bmi as a baby! Ben was a healthy 8lb 9 at birth and admittedly grew very well but was only on breast milk so ??????
Personally I think it's all related to whether or not the moon was in Aquarius , whether you are the 7th child of the 7th child and how many ladders your mother walked under while pregnant!! Think anyone will fund my study??
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Vast sums have been spent on far more outlandish theories! 🙂

http://diabetespoetry.blogspot.com/2011/07/astounding-discoveries.html

:D
 
Well I was a healthy 7lb 8oz and im no more bouncier then to now lol
 
Well Millie was 7 lbs, 1oz and remained on the 50th centile for weight throughout her 1st year, so get that for being very average! 🙂
 
I was a puny 5lbs born 2 weeks overdue! Hmm, Mum's fault then!
 
William was a bouncing 9lbs 6oz and very cuddly for the first 18 months 🙂 Now he's 14 and nearly 6ft tall and thin as a rake! 🙄
 
I was a bouncing 4lb 8oz and my twin brother was an ounce and a half less at 4lb 6.5oz. We were 4 days early and the doctor apparently took one look at us and said "is that the best you can do?". Sadly twin died of meningitis when we were 18 months old.

I read somewhere once that there's a battle between mum's genes and dad's. If mum wins the baby will be smaller while dad's genes mean a larger baby.
 
The lack of crucial nutrients at various stages of foetal development seems to have very long term consequences. (not that this is necessarily the case in babies who are born on the low side of normal)
The people of Holland suffered a famine at the end of WW2. Mothers who conceived during this period of semi starvation consequently had low weight babies . These children have grown up to have high rates of obesity, T2 diabetes and heart disease.

http://www.dutchfamine.nl/index_files/results.htm
 
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I'd actually heard that theory at a diabetics anonymous meeting a couple of years ago from one of our consultants. I was very premature (by mid 70s standards anyway, i think i only weighed a couple of pounds and was in baby intensive care for a good couple of months) and my non-diabetic brother was monsterously huge in comparison. So that and the genetic factor i reckon the odds really weren't in my favour. I always figured i'd get diabetes eventually, i just didn't expect it to be before i reached 40, let alone 35.
 
Well I was 5 1/2 pounds and a couple of weeks early but I don't know what that proves.
 
I told my o/h about this thread and he smirked, he said i was born 4 month early and 2lb 2oz,i best get down the doctors for tests 🙄
 
On Woman's Hour this morning there was a discussion about big babies and guess what, they're being set up for diabetes apparently ... annoyingly it didn't clarify type 1 or type 2, but it seems to me that either side of 'normal', whatever that is, is a risk factor.
 
Hmm, so that's why I always preferred Action Man to Barbie is it?
 
Goodness knows how my mum every carried me and my twin sister as she was a very just 5ft tall, I was 8lb 9 and my twin was a very respectable 6lb8 oh my twin isn't diabetic in fact none of my family is apart from me that is

My theory, well I'm diabetic because I was well......me!
 
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