Signs & Symptoms
- Birth
- - Weight at
birth 4 pounds 8 oz, born at 34 weeks
gestation after a difficult birth
including maternal hemorrhage. Apgars were
3/1 8/5 9/5
- Ears
- - Normal hearing
- Eyes
- - Poor eyesight
-
- Mouth
- -
Retroganathia
- High arched palate
- Teeth
- - Missing adult teeth
- Skin
- - Single
palmer creases
- Hair
- - Coarse hair that until recently was brittle and
blonde. Is now darkening and is a little more
plentiful and grows quicker. It is also somewhat
softer but it still doesn't feel like hair.
- Spine
- - Scoliosis
- Limb
- - Foot abnormalities and hand abnormalities
- - Joint contractures of the fingers, elbows,
knees, ankles
-
- Upper
Limb
- - Long
tapering fingers
- Camptodactaly
- Skeletal
- - Missing ribs
- Respitory
System
- -
Small thorax
- Genitalia
- - Hypoplastic genitalia
- Muscle
- - Weak muscles
- - Distal muscle wasting
-
- Neurological
Functional
- - Hypotonia from birth
- Neonatal seizures (currently seem normal)
-
- Development
- - Mental
handicaps (currently about 2 years
developmentally)
Contact: Brenda mom
to Erica at
taycairica@hotmail.com
Erica's Web Page:
http://www.taycairica.com/erica3.html
Any
troubles with e-mails send to
amy76jo@yahoo.com
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