Children of returning soldiers being born with birth defects? (Marine, stationed, veteran)

[MTI Wife]

Originally Posted by Jamiede81

I came across your post Googling Disabled children born to US Soldiers. I read what you wrote and I wanted to say I've come across a few women who had stillbirths, babies born with no anuses or brains. My personal story is I have a healthy 11 yr old born pre Army with No medical problems. A 7 yr old born with Horseshoe kidney hole in her heart, Now being tested for a disease where her intestines isn't functioning correctly. My 2 1/2 year old was born with a Underdeveloped eye, cataract Glucoma, A disease that causes his body to see food as a foreign object and his body just attacks itself. A learning Disability. I suffered Five Consecutive Miscarriages before having My youngest. Coincidence?? I think Not... My husband served in Iraq, Kuwait, Kosovo and was in the Army for Five Years... I look forward to hearing from you

I'm SO sorry for your losses, I know that pain. Especially after having a healthy child it's so heartbreaking and confusing and frustrating. We actually have two healthy children ages 11 and 10 now, who were born in another state before losing our other two babies. Your story is EXACTLY what I was talking about. Too much of this isn't being talked about and I think it's happening more than we know. I read about babies of Iraqi citizens in a certain region of Iraq being born with excessive birth defects as well. How did you learn about those other babies with the birth defects you mentioned. When we lost our son I was having a hard time finding some real evidence. I feel like I know that I know something but I can't possibly prove it. Our little boy was born with a form of skeletal dysplasia and was actually stillborn so it doesn't seem related to the disorders you mentioned, but whatever, just because their birth defects don't match doesn't mean the causes of them don't. Our neighbor across the street from us had a baby six months after we did who was stillborn as well who had anenchephaly which means he was born with no skull but her hubby had never been deployed, so part of me wonders if it is some form of toxins we were being exposed to at that base. I have so many questions I just wish I could get some real answers. I'll pray for your sweet babies my friend, God knows they sure didn't ask for this and I pray for your strength to care for their special needs. Thank you so much for replying to this, I feel like it's at least one more piece to the puzzle. Many blessings to you and your family.

[jessielee202]

My cousin delivered a baby girl today. At 16 weeks she was told the baby had a form of skeletal dysplasia. She was serving herself in Iraq when she concieved and of coarse was sent home ASAP. I really cannot help but think there is something in these excessive vaccinations our soldiers are receiving, especially now that I have read all of your blogs. I am glad that I am not the only one that questions these things. Many blessings to you and yours.

[Okey Dokie]

God bless all of you who have lost children or are suffering from disabilities. My DH is a Vietnam vet and I can't tell you how many people he knows from down at the VA with all sorts of Agent Orange related health problems, and his own daughter had cervical cancer at age 28. Who knows if THAT was Agent Orange related. I hope the govt. does more for the current generation than they did with Vietnam vets.

My suggestion regarding investigating environmental causes at your base is perhaps contact State Dept. of Health or Vital Statistics (who ever keeps birth/death records) to see if they can give you #s of stillborns, etc. in your city/county. Compare with other parts of your state.

[10,000Lakes]

Originally Posted by jessielee202

My cousin delivered a baby girl today. At 16 weeks she was told the baby had a form of skeletal dysplasia. She was serving herself in Iraq when she concieved and of coarse was sent home ASAP. I really cannot help but think there is something in these excessive vaccinations our soldiers are receiving, especially now that I have read all of your blogs. I am glad that I am not the only one that questions these things. Many blessings to you and yours.

There was an article that just came out about how many women in Iraq are giving birth to babies with birth defects, so perhaps it has something to do with Iraq, vs vacines?

[bksmommie]

My DH was deployed 3 times to the Middle East. Two of the deployments were to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. We have one perfectly healthy 9 year old boy which was born pre-Army but after my husband returned from Iraq on his final tour we decided to add another little one to our family. We were able to concieve right away and thought everything was proceeding normal until at 16 weeks we had to visit with a specialist regarding our daughters brain development not being normal. We were told they had to no idea what to expect and just hope for the best. So we prayed and prayed and our daughter was born in September of 2006 with all seeming to be fine with her brain development everything just disappeared they had seen on previous ultrasounds. I wish the story ended there with everything being fine but it does not, when our daughter was 3 weeks old we noticed her spine was deformed at the bottom part right above her bum. We had to see many specialist with NO ANSWERS to what has caused this or the long term effects, our daughter is 3 now and is developmentally delayed in many areas, one of her legs are longer than the other. We are now out of the military and our doctors are perplexed about the many different things going on with our daughter and say they have to be connected but they cannot connect them. My son is very bright he was reading at the age of three, there is not anyone in mine or my husbands family with anything of this nature. It is hard for me to factor out the obvious my husband served 3 times in the Middle East and was given shots of god only knows what. I am not discounting his service or any other serviceman/women because I do support our military I just wish if there is a risk to your unborn child by getting pregnant and I would have been told that. I would have def. waited like the many other families I know whose were children born with different ailments. We are all from different bases and our kids are all suffering from different birth defects or illnesses. It seems like a lot of evidence and coincidence to not be connected.

[jscurr78]

I was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009. I came back and got pregnant. At 22 weeks, we found out our daughter had half a heart (HLHS). My sister who has been deployed three times to the middle east, miscarried.
I don't know what's going on and maybe I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill, but this is not the only thing I have heard on it. I know of three female soldiers who returned back from the same deployment I was on and all three miscarried their babies.

[armymama]

I'm looking for general info. regarding "female reproductive issues" following a deployment. Its mostly for my own curiosity, but here's the situation. Our husbands served recently returned from Afghanistan. However when home on R&R, out of 10 women in my immediate group 6 of them not only conceived a child, but miscarried within 2 months. 2 more have had "spontaneous" bouts of uterine tumors and cancer. By spontaneous I mean perfectly healthy and determined by previous physical, then gut wrenching pain that prompted new testing and revealed cancer. Of course they could have previously had the tumor, but I was one of them and I had an unrelated ultrasound and revealed nothing prior to this episode. The other was a 22 yr old dancer with no other medical problems.
If anybody has any info. or had anything like this I would be really interested to know.

[LEFULEFU]

They have found that cervical cancer is caused by an STD that is left untreated for at lest two years.

[LEFULEFU]

I was an active duty member and i to gave birth to a child that was seriously malformed feet, heart, and spinal problems she died five days after. Please check your shot records or your husbands shot records i have a feeling it has to do with the shots they are giving for deployment. Each shot has a code of where it came from many veterans who have the similar problems shared the same batch of shots. Check your yellow cards or in you medical records for a complete list of shots you ever recieved then run a search on the net. I found that i recived three shots with codes that matched complaints of other veterans. I also found out some of the deployment shots are active in the persons body for 2yrs meaning do not get pregnant. Taking folic acid 3 months proir to getting pregnant can help with the risk. What people don't realize is there is a spike of infant deaths and birth defects everytime we get deployment shots. I didn't deploy but was forced to recieve all the deployment shots just in case i was to needed. I hope everyone does some research so we can find answers. Please post what you found? God bless all of you who have lost a child i share the same pain everyday...........

[Bakeneko]

So sorry to hear of everyone's losses. I , sadly, know how heartbreaking it came be.... we lost a baby to omphalocele (brith defect where intestines and other organs are outside the abdomin) after my husband's deployment to Iraq.