My DH wants to blame it on her prematurity and birth trauma. I can't even go there because I still have PTSD from her birth and I just can't add another level of guilt to it. I spoke briefly with one of our neonatalogists in the hall at work last week (he is our follow-up guru and also the one who cared for DD) and told him of DD's diagnosis. He offered to pull his stats about dyslexia from our local population of prems for me, but he agrees that there is almost always a family history involved.
There is relatively little research that follows premature babies past age 3. I once had a neonatologist tell me that he's never seen any proof that prematurity and ADHD are correlated, and then I met a developmental pediatrician who scoffed, that's because the research isn't done, not because the relationship isn't there.
Regarding PTSD: cognitive-behavior therapy now (thanks to the Iraq war) has quite good strategies for treating this. You might want to seek relief.
DeeDee
