1. Pregnancy:
The pregnancy for Noah was well without worry, even easier than for our eldest daughter Marion.
2. Childbirth
Noah was born on the 11/06/2005.
The delivery was longer, the delivery was very difficult and exhausting.
My husband held seized on his way out and immediately felt a lack of tone, he was like a dead weight. The doctors immediately said it was happening and we had to wait.
Noah also showed difficulty drinking when I was breastfeeding, but showed no sign of hunger, he was rather calm and slept a lot. He was born with a congenital torticollis. So it was necessary to feed him with the bottle at an early stage to be sure that he received the quantity of milk necessary for his growth.
After a few days Noah always had problems with tone; he could not hold his head and did not manage to grasp with his hands. However, he made a lot of movement with his legs.
He seemed to have created a perimeter around him in which we could not enter without disturbing him and he could not stand direct glances; we had to use mirrors to look him in the eye.
Noah had a slightly lower average normal growth curve with a slightly bigger head.
3. Early Childhood
Noah sat very late and had hypotonia of the trunk and the upper body until he was 3 years old. He never crawled. He discovered the world and the objects that surrounded it by striking them with his feet.
Noah took his first step on 01/01/2008.
During his first 2 years, he underwent all the possible examinations according to the medical protocol without any answers to our questions.
It was around the age of three that we began to notice his absences and the fact that he drooled excessively.
His first seizure occurred at the age of 5 while he was falling asleep. The contractions concerned only one side of his body. We did not immediately realize that these were crises.
We then encountered a neuropediatrician and after an EEG, epilepsy was diagnosed. A treatment, based on DépaKine and Keppra, was then administered to him without effectiveness. Noah did not have major or frequent attacks. Then there was a big crisis about 1 year after that lasted much longer and Noah did not regain his spirits immediately afterwards. It took him 1 / 2h of sleep and remained paralyzed on the side where he had trembled.
In 2013, we tried a new, more effective molecule for "lateral epilepsy" *Tegretol*and Noah contracted a Steven Johnson syndrome to this mollusc. He then returned to Depakine and Keppra.
- Generally speaking, Noah had a developmental delay in all areas of his life.
- Cognitive Retardation
- Poor fine grip
- Problem walking
- Big language problem
- Crisis of anger and frustration
- It seems little sensitive to pain
- He has a bad management of his emotions
- He can not stand being touched or examined, it is difficult for doctors so there is no EEG really revealing but also in the hairdresser.
- He is fascinated by fire which is problematic because he is not aware of the danger and it gives him a lot of excitement.
- He likes massages but he has his moments
- He likes horseback riding and his dog.
4. Early adolescence
Today Noah's epilepsy seems stable for 1 year and a half (no more tremors)
We stopped the Depakine, but it has appeared for 3 months of enormous problems of constipation and goes back to dropping abundance.
Noah very much asks for our presence and never plays alone. He loves to be in contact with other children but does not participate in their games.
He loves to blow in balloons.
He loves car trips.
He does not have a big appetite.
He is a child at once cuddly and brutal.
He knows how to defend himself at school.
He uses his charm and his hugs to negotiate.
He seems to understand much of what one says, for example, he gives us the objects when asked, but he does not speak. One must guess some words. With the exception of one he pronounces clearly; "NO", he uses a sign language sometimes or designates with the hand what he wants.
The pregnancy for Noah was well without worry, even easier than for our eldest daughter Marion.
2. Childbirth
Noah was born on the 11/06/2005.
The delivery was longer, the delivery was very difficult and exhausting.
My husband held seized on his way out and immediately felt a lack of tone, he was like a dead weight. The doctors immediately said it was happening and we had to wait.
Noah also showed difficulty drinking when I was breastfeeding, but showed no sign of hunger, he was rather calm and slept a lot. He was born with a congenital torticollis. So it was necessary to feed him with the bottle at an early stage to be sure that he received the quantity of milk necessary for his growth.
After a few days Noah always had problems with tone; he could not hold his head and did not manage to grasp with his hands. However, he made a lot of movement with his legs.
He seemed to have created a perimeter around him in which we could not enter without disturbing him and he could not stand direct glances; we had to use mirrors to look him in the eye.
Noah had a slightly lower average normal growth curve with a slightly bigger head.
3. Early Childhood
Noah sat very late and had hypotonia of the trunk and the upper body until he was 3 years old. He never crawled. He discovered the world and the objects that surrounded it by striking them with his feet.
Noah took his first step on 01/01/2008.
During his first 2 years, he underwent all the possible examinations according to the medical protocol without any answers to our questions.
It was around the age of three that we began to notice his absences and the fact that he drooled excessively.
His first seizure occurred at the age of 5 while he was falling asleep. The contractions concerned only one side of his body. We did not immediately realize that these were crises.
We then encountered a neuropediatrician and after an EEG, epilepsy was diagnosed. A treatment, based on DépaKine and Keppra, was then administered to him without effectiveness. Noah did not have major or frequent attacks. Then there was a big crisis about 1 year after that lasted much longer and Noah did not regain his spirits immediately afterwards. It took him 1 / 2h of sleep and remained paralyzed on the side where he had trembled.
In 2013, we tried a new, more effective molecule for "lateral epilepsy" *Tegretol*and Noah contracted a Steven Johnson syndrome to this mollusc. He then returned to Depakine and Keppra.
- Generally speaking, Noah had a developmental delay in all areas of his life.
- Cognitive Retardation
- Poor fine grip
- Problem walking
- Big language problem
- Crisis of anger and frustration
- It seems little sensitive to pain
- He has a bad management of his emotions
- He can not stand being touched or examined, it is difficult for doctors so there is no EEG really revealing but also in the hairdresser.
- He is fascinated by fire which is problematic because he is not aware of the danger and it gives him a lot of excitement.
- He likes massages but he has his moments
- He likes horseback riding and his dog.
4. Early adolescence
Today Noah's epilepsy seems stable for 1 year and a half (no more tremors)
We stopped the Depakine, but it has appeared for 3 months of enormous problems of constipation and goes back to dropping abundance.
Noah very much asks for our presence and never plays alone. He loves to be in contact with other children but does not participate in their games.
He loves to blow in balloons.
He loves car trips.
He does not have a big appetite.
He is a child at once cuddly and brutal.
He knows how to defend himself at school.
He uses his charm and his hugs to negotiate.
He seems to understand much of what one says, for example, he gives us the objects when asked, but he does not speak. One must guess some words. With the exception of one he pronounces clearly; "NO", he uses a sign language sometimes or designates with the hand what he wants.