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The other day me and my mom were talking and she told me the story about when I was born. I was born prematurely at 6 months weighing 3 lbs. My mother's high blood pressure would not go down and doctors were worried. The doctor said, it was either me or my mom. So, she had a c-section and they kept me in an incubator with a whole bunch of electrodes and things all over my body. My mother had to pump milk out of her breasts and the hospital would feed me through a feeding tube. The doctors told my mother that more than likely I will not make it. And here I am.

I wonder sometimes if there's a link between being born prematurely and being trans.

I was six weeks premature and weighed 4 pounds. But I'm <twitches> fine now! Hugs, Devlyn

I was born pretty much on time..

Quote from: kelly_aus on February 16, 2012, 06:06:27 PM
I was born pretty much on time..

Same.

For what it's worth, I'm one of those annoying people (I could stop here!) who shows up early for everything. Hugs, Devlyn

Actually I was born 2 weeks early, and my older Sister was born 2 months premature. But...around 17 weeks with me, my Mom had severe abdominal pains one day and was taken to the hospital and diagnosed with a threatened abortion. She spent the night in the hospital, the pain resolved/went away and she went home the next day. I believe that is the connection to my being Trans, and she does not recall being given any medications (DES).

7 weeks early due to ammonia poisoning.

About 2 weeks late.

I have a similar story. I was about nine weeks early through C-section because I apparently had heart problems, or at least that's how my mother always explained it. She was extremely sick at the time, so she hardly remembers. They told her that I probably wouldn't make it, but I'm here, alive and well... sort of.

Edit:
I asked her again out of curiosity, and I was apparently seventeen weeks too early, not nine.

I am glad someone asked this. I also was born premature although Im not sure by how much, when I was born I think I had some respritory problems and the doctors thought i would not make. I often wondered if this is why I am the way I am.

I understand I was breach. So late. Strangely, I can't remember much about it.

Me, and my brothers (triplets!), were born premature, 2 of us were 5ish pounds whereas the other was a much healthier weight. Me and the youngest* both spent several weeks in incubators but now we're all >6ft tall!

*Youngest - technically true but only by being the last one yanked out!

I was born 10 weeks early and weighed 1lb 14oz.

Hi Jen,

I was also born prematurely and I think it has something to do with being trans. Perhaps that or a disease in the early childhood. It is good you asked this.

Me and my twin sister were born at 27 weeks weighing 2 lbs each.

I always thought as a child that if I was in longer then I would have been born a boy hahah.

Born about a month early.  Mom had lots of issues carrying me.  Plus, she had been given DES to keep from miscarrying me. 

My brother was the difficult birth. I was born right on time with a completely boring, uneventful, complication-free pregnancy and birth.

From conception till a few years after puberty, everything about my development was exactly by the book. If the baby books said that something would happen at, say, five weeks, then that something happened at exactly five weeks for me.

That said, I actually caused my mom to go into and out of labor multiple times because instead of pushing with the pointy part of my head, I was apparently using my face, but that didn't cause any problems; it just took longer before she stayed in labor long enough for the hospital to accept her.

A little early, but I don't know by how much exactly. If memory serves even my Mom didn't know exactly by how much (she isn't here anymore to ask). My Mom wasn't supposed to be able to have children, so apparently when she went to her doctor and said "I think I am pregnant" he was doubtful at first.

I was 3 months early.

Quote from: peky on February 17, 2012, 06:10:39 PM
Hi,

Me and my twin sister were born at 27 weeks too!!!!

Peky

Hahah really? That's crazyyy. I think about it now and wonder how the hell did we even survive hahah.

It's funny because our umbilical cord was attached to each other and then attached to the uterine wall. At the end of my mom's pregnancy I started to steal all the nutrition and started to get bigger and my sister wasn't getting any. We joke about it now because I've always weighed a bit more than her because I would eat all the food in the house while she would be a delicate eater.

I am sorry for asking, but is your sister transsexual/ gay too?

Quote from: swan on February 18, 2012, 02:59:50 AM
I am sorry for asking, but is your sister transsexual/ gay too?

Hahah no. And we're also identical twins too. She has a husband and two kids.

Though besides our gender and sexuality we are practically the same.

There seems to be several twins/triplets whom identify as trans - coincidence or something more? According to Google, in the US in 2001 3.1% of all births were twins with the figure in Europe roughly half that. A quick count of this thread ~ roughly 12 different posters, reveals 25% of whom are multiples. Interesting?  :eusa_think:

I was born 2 months early. I barely had lungs! My mom tells me horror stories of the machines that I needed to survive and how they'd go off in the middle of the night cause I'd stop breathing.

Yep born at 6 months weighing 500g. And about the size of an average soup tin. Mum made a huge fuss. it was in russia and I was declared unfit to live because I was apparently to premature. But im here today, a little strange but here. Hmm the systems changed a lot now. Now the nurses dont get to decide whos fit to live and who isnt. Everyones given a right to it. :)

Not premature but I was about 2 weeks early... my mom said I just wanted to be an Aquarius as I was born the last day of Aquarius and if I'd waited 6 more hours would've been a Pisces  :P

Weird how many people are premature though, maybe there is a link between that and being trans.  Actually I don't even know how often babies are born prematurely... time to do some research.

born right on time.

I was born a couple weeks premature, and my mom was born, I think a month premature.

It would be interesting to to a formal survey of trans-people, to see if there is any difference in rates of birth-complications from the general population. One theory about ->-bleeped-<- is that it originates with a hormonal imbalance in utero.