Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums GT Research morning sickness anyone?

This thread is so funny! I find it particularly amusing since I'm expecting in the next month or two or so. (due dates are rather meaningless when you are having pre-term labor!) It falls right in line with the in-laws trying to guess whether we are having a boy or a girl depending on how much weight I have gained in my thighs! Ha!

For DS8 (and future little one):
1) no morning sickness with either.
2) DS on the shrimpy side of height. (DH was the shortest in class until HS)
3) lefty. (very Visual-Spatial kid)
4) hazel eyes, like his dad.
5) early teether. (teeth at 4 months, all 8 first permanent ones in by 6 years.)
6) glasses. (like his parents)
7) very small head (like his parents)
8) didn't sleep through the night until after 4 years old.

So far, DS?/DD? (-2 months) has a head in the 35% when everything else is smack on the 50% mark!

I think if you take all of the HG+ kids out there and average them together, you will find a fair representation of all genetic combinations possible. It seems more dependent on the gene pool than IQ. It is fun to look at all of the various combinations though!!

It would be fun to be able to pick and choose. (I would dump #8 very, very quickly!) But it also begs the question of whether you would choose to have an HG+ child to begin with. It is a long hard road to travel, without much aide or understanding from others, present company excepted of course. There are days when fighting with the school and asynchronous development leaves me exhausted!! I think we would probably choose to our second child be gifted, given the option, but there are days when I pray for just a normal, healthy baby. (with the emphasis on the word normal!)

for the record, i was totally joking in my posts above.

Bad eyesight and height would definitely work for my daughter, she's somewhere in the 20/700 area? Which, I recently discovered, makes her visually impaired *until she puts the glasses/contacts on*. And she's always been the tallest in her grades of 100-300 kids- now she's blending in more, but she's still "the tower." She's brown eyed and right handed though. And I did not have much morning sickness....

We've got:
Very tall and big
Never slept
lots of nausea in pregnancy

BUT:
no eyeglasses
green eyes
regular sized heads
they are right handed, I am left handed
one had late, late teeth, other had normal timed teeth

This is great, we should submit our findings and get our own research grant, no need for IQ tests

Hmmm....

I don't throw up all that much in pregnancy any more because I start taking my anti-nausea meds at 6 weeks. I take it until I give birth because I start puking if I forget it one night. It just so happens that brushing my teeth, raising my heart rate, laughing too much, and many other things trigger my gag reflex and make me puke too. The one I'm carrying right now seems to be the worst.

All three of my kids started out in the 95th percentile.

DD got her first two teeth at 4 months and lost her first two teeth at 4 years. My youngest DS got his first two teeth at 2 months.

All three of them have blue eyes and are right handed.

OMG Imagine! WOW that would be something. I was deadly sick, in and out of hospital hypermeses def. Although I was sicker w/my 2nd and not seeing any gifted signs although I took medicine w/him that could have had some neg side effects.

I need to add "visited a chiropractor regularly" to mine... both prior to conception (too many years of not getting pregnant to not think being aligned helped) and during pregnancy.

JJM-

In other words, your chiropractor got you pregnant?

LOL. If only I could get some monetary support from him, right? Ha!

And what if DS is my 1st born, but he's DH's second born?