ARE THE LITTLE DARLINGS/MONSTERS WORTH THE RISKS? (Health Considerations)

Member Name: saramac

Product:	Health Considerations
Date:	16/07/09 (56 review reads)
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I want to write this review from a couple of different angles-
My experience and some of the reasons why I think I suffer bad health.
The health of my children.

What a difficult topic ,good job I relish a challenge. Anything to do with Parenting Issues I do feel we all have to be very careful as none of us is a perfect parent and we all learn from our parents and their mistakes and our own mistakes.

When it comes to Health Considerations if we took this literally we all probably wouldn't have been born.
If we sat down with pad and paper and family history of the two prospective parents to be, would we be brave enough to go ahead and have children?

Consider how many family members have asthma, eczema, hayfever etc....
How many passed away from cancer, heart problems, bowel problems etc...
Will our children suffer any of these afflictions? Is it worth risking it?.....

In my opinion "YES" of course it is, anything we have suffered, makes us stronger, more informed I suffer severe M.E and very quickly noticed my son is sooo much like me and such an ideal candidate to also get M.E that I now keep a special eye on him and can hopefully stop him making the mistakes I made which led to my illness.
That said obviously Im not paranoid and am not willing him to share my illness.

Also there is no reason why our children should suffer "family illness" it can skip generations and can actually die out.
At least we are informed today and can make choices, Im told my Grandma died of breast cancer because she had a lump, ignored it/didn't know what it was. Thats very unlikely to occur very often today and Im sure we have all heard stories of ladies having their breasts removed due to multiple deaths from breast cancer in their immediate families, again they have a choice.

One thing that intrigues me is- my Mum gave birth to me at 42 yrs old, to say I was a shock is an understatement she was 6 months pregnant before she realised. My brother and sister are 19 and 17 years older than me respectively and are both very healthy. Whereas I got M.E at 13 and have struggled ever since.
Was part of my problem because the egg I came from(sounds like Im a chicken or duck) was quite old as women are born with the eggs they produce, as oppose to the sperm which is fresh and lively?

Theres something to think about if Mum was say 32 yrs old when I was born would it have made a difference? I have 4 friends all born to Mums in their 40s and they all have quite a few underlying health issues ie. 1 has a normal kidney and a tiny one that doesn't work and bad digestive issues.

Just another thing to think about but don't add it to our "Mothers Guilt List" that we Mothers lugg around with us constantly.
It all seems to be a little hit and miss in the good health/ bad health lottery, my daughter is dyslexic, but we don't know of anyone else in the family so shes made that one up herself.

Environmental factors come into play also, thats why there is such a rise in allergys, eczema, asthma. The pollution in the air effects children, hormones pumped into meat, additives, chemicals used on vegetables.
We can lessen the effect by giving our children a "healthy" lifestyle and hope they continue it as they get older, in my experience, they wander off track at some point usually when they have turned"teenage Kevin Like" but with Love and patience (in large amounts) they can usually be dragged back into line kicking and screaming.

Children are so tough and resilient most of the time they put us adults to shame how many times has our child been doing the "dying fly"(yes I Loved Tiswas) and we frantically call the doctor out and by the time he/she arrives our "glow in the dark little Angel with a temperature of 300" is diving off the back of the sofa and wrestling the dog, I think that happens to us all at sometime and its soo embarrassing.

To sum up in my humble opinion, to a certain extent we just have to dive in and take a chance with health considerations and its also down to personal opinions and I guess a certain amount of luck, there aint no guarantees with Life, Love or Health and lets face it we could drive ourselves "potty" worrying about everything.


Are children worth the risk? Yes I think they definitely are.

Thankyou for taking the time to read my review.

Summary: Healths a lottery to a certain extent anyways.