I'm worried I've hurt my son's reproductive organs by taking low-dose birth control pills, prescribed by my mid-wife, while nursing. He is now 9 and, of course, hasn't nursed for years. But, for years he did get those hormones. Mid-wife dismissed my concerns, saying my body is always full of hormones....
I wonder if they did affect him, tho, because there is a very big difference in the sizes of our two sons' penises. Well, I haven't seen the older boy's in many years, but the younger one, I spotted in the shower the other night and was very surprised to see his penis still looks like an infant's. (Our sons are uncircumcized.) Our oldest's was not infant-like when he was 8/9.
Should I pursue this with his doctor, or are these variations just typical? I know a friend of ours had her son, who has down syndrome, receive injections of growth hormone directly into his penis, because it was so small it was barely protruding.
2006-12-08 02:39:42 · 4 answers · asked by t jefferson 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
I don't think that taking low-dose birth control will have and effect on the childs reproductive organs. Because I remember reading something in the Laleche site of the amount of medicine a mother takes doesn't go into the breast milk as much as we think it does. But I would probably recommend going to the website for exact answers. And if it does concern you a bit about the reproductive organs. You can probably bring up the question to the child's pediatrician to be sure.
2006-12-08 02:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by mcx 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If low dose pills were any less effective, they couldn't be marketed as ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES. They used to use BOATLOADS of estrogen and progesterone in birth control pills, but they now realize that not THAT much is necesary to avoid unwanted pregnancies. It's not that they're really LOW dose.. they're just lowER dose than what the old birth control pills had. Absolutely not less effective.
2016-05-23 06:32:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mention it to the Dr at his next appointment. An uncircumsized penis always looks smaller than a circumsized one. As for the down's syndrome baby...that's because their genetilia is smalle anyways
2006-12-08 03:59:19 · answer #3 · answered by mommy_2_liam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That has nothing to do with your birth control pills.
2006-12-08 02:51:37 · answer #4 · answered by Miriam Z 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋