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This mother drank while pregnant. Here’s what her daughter’s like at 43.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:34 am
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:34 am
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Kathy Mitchell wants to share something with you. She’s not proud of it, and it’s not a behavior she hopes you’ll emulate. It’s just the truth: As a teen, Kathy drank alcohol while pregnant with her daughter, Karli. It was a perilous if unwitting mistake that has defined both of their lives.
Karli is now 43 but is the developmental age of a first-grader. In the home she shares with her mother and stepfather, she collects dolls and purses, and pores over Hello Kitty coloring and sticker books. Karli has fetal alcohol syndrome, the result of alcohol exposure in utero.
In middle age, Karli has none of the awareness, self-determination and independence that most of us take for granted. She can’t recognize social cues, is easily led and manipulated, and can’t predict dangerous behaviors. She can only follow one rule at a time and doesn’t understand sequence. She can cross a street at a lighted crosswalk, but if the light is out, she’ll step in front of a car. She likes to wear pretty clothes, but she can’t remember to brush her teeth.
To Kathy, Karli’s is simply a life snuffed of promise. “I adore my very sweet daughter,” Kathy says. “She’s a forever innocent child. But not a day goes by that I don’t ask myself, ‘What if? What if alcohol hadn’t been a part of my life?’?”
Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or FASD, covers a range of impairments from severe, such as Karli’s fetal alcohol syndrome, to mild. Its effects can include impaired growth, intellectual disabilities and such neurological, emotional and behavioral issues as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, vision problems and speech and language delays. FASD is also sometimes characterized by a cluster of facial features: small eyes, a thin upper lip and a flat philtrum (the ridge between the nose and upper lip).
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:36 am to trom83
What a downer to start my day.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:37 am to Bama and Beer
Thanks B&B. I really didn't want to be the guy that asked for pics of a retard.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:38 am to trom83
What a great way to start the morning! Thanks!
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:43 am to Oates Mustache
Just trying to bring awareness to the consequences of drinking during pregnancy.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 5:50 am to trom83
First daughter born with symptoms so she continues to drink, smoke, and use drugs in the process of having four more children. How about taking some accountability you dumb bitch
Posted on 1/19/16 at 6:31 am to trom83
I'm late 50's and I don't know many mothers who did not drink when pregnant back then. Hell most of them smoked too.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 6:33 am to trom83
That's really sad. Terrible first read of the day
Posted on 1/19/16 at 6:53 am to Nado Jenkins83
Yes, but she has a kick arse dolly collection. So she's got that going for her....which is nice
Posted on 1/19/16 at 6:54 am to trom83
I'd beat your arse with a sack of nickels if you were here right meow baw. Bummed me out.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 7:10 am to trom83
It would have been better to put her down at birth and sterilize the mother.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 7:14 am to Nado Jenkins83
Yeah, she looks pretty content with that room full of creepy as dolls
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