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Hi all, I know it has been sometime since anyone has posted on the site but I thought "what the hell", i'll give it a a shot and maybe we can get this topic started again.
Broken....I know that you have already had your baby by this point but I just wanted to assure you that the few Xanax that you did take was most likely not the reason for your baby's cleft lip/pallete. My sister-n-law had a baby with the same thing, its genetic. Now, he is almost 3 yrs old and you can't hardly tell he ever had a thing wrong with him and his was real severe. Of course he has many more surgeries to go through but all in all he is a very healthy intelligent little guy.
Now this is my whole reason for coming to the board: We found out we were pregnant in April, i was just like 3 weeks when we found out. I am currently on 95 mg of Methadone a day for opiate dependency /addiction...have been for 7 yrs now. I am also prescribed 1mg Xanax 3 times a day, i have been taking that now for 5 yrs. I have already had 1 perfectly healthy little boy while on methadone but i was not taking the xanax with that pregnancy. I have read horror stories about Xanax and scared to death about not taking them and withdrawing but I did wean myself to just 1/2 of 1mg a day in 2 weeks time. I was 11 1/2
weeks pregnant on Mother's Day when I started miscarrying. The very nexy day...my sons b-day they scheduled me for surgery, the D&C! We were devestated, we wanted this sooo bad! The Dr. told me when I went in the day I started bleeding and found no heartbeat that there was nothing I did or nothing I could've done to prevent the miscarriage. But then after the surgery, while I was in recovery he came in the speak with the family and my hubby asked what may have caused it and he said that we would talk more about that my follow-up visit which is this coming Thursday. So, it makes me think that maybe when he got in there during surgery that maybe he did find something out of the ordinary. I know that the Methadone had nothing to do with my miscarriage and maybe not even the Xanax but I can't help but to think that the Xanax had alot of factors in this. Now, my pregnancy wasn't normal from the beginning though...my progestrone level was low they called me in meds to make them rise and they did and I cramped severely with this pregnancy as well, not the normal cramping. So, i think odds were against me more than not with this pregnancy. Do you think that the withdrawals from the Xanax may have made me miscarry? Or maybe taking the Xanax and my body rejecting it? I would like some closure as well as opinions on this. Thanks, Bridget

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