Irish thing

[Guest guest]

HI,

I had done some research on spina bifida as my uncle died of

complications as an infant, my dd has congenital scoli and her

spinal cord is abnormal. I have found a some research to make a

connection between congenital scoli and spina bifida although the

geneticist has told me other wise. I did find an article which

mentioned a higher tendency for spina bifida for Hispanics and for

people in a part of Ireland - I can't remember which part, but it

was where my grandmother was from near the coast, she is from county

Mayo. So my dd got kind of a double wammy as she is also hispanic.

I also had found some info that suggested that positioning practices

in certain countries is sometimes implicated .. one article I read

blamed laying infants on their sides to sleep as a common practice

in a certain country where scoliosis rates are higher. I did put

all of my kids to sleep on their side. none of them got infantile

scoli though. so just what I read... I am not saying that

infantile has anything to do with spina bifida...I just did some

research bc of my dd's spinal cord .