How long does it take to find out if a baby born from a heroin addict mother and cocaine addict father take?

Question

Baby is 4 pounds 5 ounces and the hospital says there are no drugs in baby and he is very healthy. How soon should problems develop?

Answer 1

immediately...tests are done of the infants stool in the hospital. If no drugs are found there should be no problems.

Answer 2

It really depends on how long the mother was using when she was pregnant. Usually problems are at birth. I know a parent of the foster system that has helped probably hundreds of children and I remember this one baby she got about 14 years ago that was a crack baby. He was shaking all the time because of the withdrawls he was going through. He wanted to be held all the time, to be kept moving, and spoken to or around very low or he would let out these gut wrenching shreiks. He was in a lot of pain until the drugs were out of his system and wasn't needing a fix. That took a while because you can't do the "cold turkey" thing with babies or it will kill them. He was tiny. He had physical developmental problems. He grew slow and had brittle bones and weak muscles. He didn't walk until he was almost 2 and has some learning disabilities.

Answer 3

If they find something Social services will take the baby. It happen to a lady I work with the baby she was adopting came out positive for all kinds of drugs. Even though she was clean (she was the adoptive mom) she couldn't get the baby yet because of the drugs. And thanks to the retard birth mother, the adoptive parents had to go through weeks of additional testing.
Gosh I hope this isn't your child and your the addict if so you gotta clean up...what chance in life are you giving a child?

Answer 4

If they ran a tox-screen and the baby doesn't have anything in it's system-that is a good start. It's not the father you have to worry about, it's the mother. Did she use while pregnant? Through the entire pregnancy? That's bad and there is a very good chance that the baby will have developmental problems. Could start after 3 months when they start pushing themselves up and holding their heads up by themselves.

Answer 5

approximately ninety 9.99999% of toddlers born to mothers who abused drugs or alcohol go through some style of issues whether they are not particularly poor or obtrusive issues, some short term, in many cases long term, and each each and every now and then the themes do not look a difficulty in the initiating till the toddler grows up, yet confident. this is a terrible element to sit down down and hear a crack-addicted toddler cry in withdraw using fact his mom does not lay down the pipe mutually as she replaced into pregnant.

Answer 6

as soon as it can hold a pipe or needle