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In 1994, CDC collaborated with the Mississippi Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to investigate reports of adverse birth outcomes among members of two Mississippi National Guard Units that served in the Gulf War. This investigation found no increase above expected rates in the total number of birth defects or in the frequency of premature births and low birth-weight babies.
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To determine whether deployment has increased the rate of birth defects, studies have been done to compare birth defect rates for groups who were deployed and similar groups who were not deployed:
The above study did not show an increase in birth defects, but it was criticized because it did not include pregnancy losses such as miscarriage or stillbirths or terminations of pregnancies with defects.
This study was done in the UK to address those concerns:
This was done using a survey, and the discussion points out some of the biases that can result from doing that.
The conclusions:
"Offspring of male UK veterans of the first Gulf war were not found to have increased risks of stillbirth, chromosomal malformations, or syndromes.
Fathers' service in the first Gulf war was associated with an increased risk of miscarriage and some groups of malformations.
These results need to be interpreted with caution and we cannot at this stage conclude that the associations are causal.
For female veterans there was no increased risk of miscarriage in pregnancies conceived since the war. Stillbirths and malformations were too few to analyse."
"Veterans and civilians who did not occupy DU-contaminated vehicles are unlikely to have internalized quantities of DU significantly in excess of normal internalization of natural uranium from the environment."
At this point, there is no strong evidence that deployed veterans are having large numbers of children with birth defects. The possible increased risk of miscarriage is undergoing further study, but that increased risk may just be due to the biases associated with surveys.
I didn't give any statistical conclusion, I asked for statistics.
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It appears the problematic birth diminishes as time away from the service increases
That second line would be what's called an inference...a statistical conclusion. It is phrased exactly as if the evidence is already there and you are interpreting it as X indicates causation to Y. Perhaps a better way to put it if you weren't trying to come to a conclusion:
"Does problematic birth diminish as time away from the service increases? Are there any studies on this?"
Since I first posted my issue with my daughters child I have read so many posts from mothers, fathers, grandparents all saying the same things. I wonder why the army is looking for the birth defects so early in pregnancies? The testing alone makes me believe they know something is wrong and are looking for specific problems because they know the problems exist. That said why don't they let the soldiers know before they go through the pregnancy? It is historically proven almost impossible to put blame on one thing one event one cause of a birth defect/cancer/toxic substance. The armed services should be relatively insulated from liability. So why not let the soldiers know the statistics that we all are seeing now and save them the heartache of these births? It appears the problematic birth diminishes as time away from the service increases but that presents another problem and that is the cost of caring for the babies. This situation sucks for these kids/young adults and the only advise I can give my daughter is to stay in the army so they can shoulder the cost of the child's needs.
Looking for birth defects is the standard of care for any pregnancy. Right now the statistics do not support the thesis that soldiers and wives of soldiers who were deployed are having more problems than soldiers and wives of soldiers who were not deployed.
My fiance was deployed over seas, he said he was given tons of vaccines. i had a child before I met her, she was born healthy with no birth defects. We now have 2 beautiful girls. They both have heart murmurs, they both are tongue tied. really how can you explain both children having the same defects. Not one person in our families has these defects. I'm just praying that they do not find any other defects or illnesses in the future. PLease Please do your research before you let the drs. poison your children. Just because there drs doesnt mean they are god, they get paid to pump you with drugs an poisons open your eyes an mind.
I conceived my first while stationed in Baghdad. She was born with a small heart defect that corrected itself. She also has autism. There is no way to know if these are a consequence of the environment.
I'm wondering if any of you soldiers, sailors, airman or marines who have been deployed to Iraq have come home and since your return had babies be born with any kind of birth defects. My hubby returned from Iraq in 2006 and in 2007 we had a son stillborn with numerous birth defects. Of course we've heard how it's just a fluke and has nothing to do with the immunizations he received or anything he was exposed to so we tried again only to lose that baby at 16 weeks. So at this point I have to wonder if the exposures he encountered during his deployments contributed to these devastating events. I also have to mention that we have two other healthy children who were conceived before his deployments. I truly hope the answer to my question is that no one else has had to go through this, but if you have I really would like to know what your experiences have been. I also should mention that there were two other military wives I knew of who lost babies in the last trimester around the same time that we did. There just seem to be too many signs that point toward these deployments. I'd also like to mention that I'm very proud of my hubby's service but I hope that losing these babies aren't sacrifices we've made for our country.
My fiance was deployed over seas, he said he was given tons of vaccines. i had a child before I met her, she was born healthy with no birth defects. We now have 2 beautiful girls. They both have heart murmurs, they both are tongue tied. really how can you explain both children having the same defects. Not one person in our families has these defects. I'm just praying that they do not find any other defects or illnesses in the future. PLease Please do your research before you let the drs. poison your children. Just because there drs doesnt mean they are god, they get paid to pump you with drugs an poisons open your eyes an mind.
Heart murmurs are extremely common, especially in newborns and children. In fact the rate is about 90%., with less than 1% of those being caused by a congenital defect.
Most grow out of it and it's no big deal. I'm 36, have had one since birth and I'm fine. No one else in my family has a murmur or any congenital heart defects.
By "tongue tied" do you mean a speech delay or an physical abnormality with their tongues? Speech delays are the most common developmental delay among children.
My husband was deployed between04-07 i have two healthy kids from previous relationships.Then Cheyenne was born my husbands first born.... She was born without a limb, missing rite forearm, no mention from the military base doctors after a 2 an half sonogram that she was missing a limb or that it wasn't growing!!! she was born and that's wen we found out she was missing it..!!! Complete shock, sadness, confusion, disbelief, heartache, stress. Then depression manic depression. !! so much for lackland air force base hospital being one of the best around.
im an iraqi vet, 2004-2005, and my wife and i had a child 5 yrs ago. his face is deformed with no answers from a childrens hospital. ive done searches online for US soldiers returning to have deformed children and there is very few.
if anyone has deformed children you think from being in iraq or ft hood, Tx. please email me and we can share thoughts or research. thanks. naucole@hotmail.com (wifes email)
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Deployd 04-07 birth defect!!!!!
!! so much for lackland air force base hospital being one of the best around.
