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Hi, i'm a new lefthanded member and wanted to ask if anyone has ever heard that being born lefthanded was due to a traumatic childbirth?
I have always been told that is the reason i was born a lefty.
I have always been told that is the reason i was born a lefty.
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Re: Traumatic Childbirth
Wed, November 17, 2004 - 12:10 PMnever heard that.. was your birth tramatic..? mine was but I thought was just a lefty cause i'm "weird" ..:)
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Wed, November 17, 2004 - 1:08 PMWell ... i suppose mine was. But really, isn't all childbirth traumatic? I was premie, breech, eventually born via c-section. Maybe there is some truth to it? -
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 8:18 AMguess more folks need to chime in -
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 8:27 AMI do remember reading once - don't ask me where because details don't stick - that lefthandedness is more common among folks who had birth mothers who were older at the time of their birth - this along with a few other traits not found in the majority of the population. Of course, that "older" has different meanings to different people and eras, but in my case it is true. My Mom was a couple of months shy of being 41 when I was born, which at the time put her in the high age range of being a mother.
Of course my oldest sister was also left-handed, and she was born 10 years before me, so this obviously isn't an exact science if it is one at all. -
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 10:03 AMThat's interesting as well. In my case that would be true too, my mother was 39 when i was born.
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Fri, September 2, 2005 - 7:06 PMI just think we're special....although I was a "breach" baby and had to be delivered via C-section. Always doing things backwards I suppose!
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 11:13 AM26 when she had me .. guess there is no reall answer it's all gueses *LOL*
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Insert tongue firmly into cheek
Thu, November 18, 2004 - 5:57 PMPeople are born with a prediliction one way or the other, as with a great many genetic traits. I've read statistics that range from 1 in 20 children to 1 in 9 are born left handed, and surely that would've been a heck of a lot of traumatic childbirthings!
And do *all* "trumatic childbirths result in left-handed children? I sincerely doubt that. And for anyone to claim that babies end up left-handed from trumatic childbirth, makes it sound like it was only one step away to serious physical or mental retardation resulting from said trumatic childbirth, or even death! I'd hate to think one more wrong turn by mom during the birthing process would've meant I'd be dead, but instead--whew!--I'm merely left handed.
And isn't such a lame excuse a horrible thing to tell a kid? I'm not knocking you, Relentless, but geez! Whatever happened to telling a kid "That's just the way you are"? -
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Thu, November 18, 2004 - 6:03 PMOMG! Yay, i'm normal. Sheesh.
All kidding aside, i consider all childbirth traumatic. Both of my daughters were not easy to deliver and they're both right-handed. I know it's merely a trait that we share, much like our eye color or hair color. -
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Re: Insert tongue firmly into cheek
Sun, December 5, 2004 - 6:23 PMwell, my parents were both left handed, but forced to be right handed. all i've noticed is that us lefties are exceptionally wierd -
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Re: Insert tongue firmly into cheek
Mon, December 6, 2004 - 10:06 AMNow that, I won't argue with. -
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Mon, December 6, 2004 - 10:42 AMOk, I don't know how scientific this is, but I thought it was interesting. There is a blurb about birth stress and left-handedness about halfway down the article.
psychology.hypnoticworld.com/inf....php -
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Re: Insert tongue firmly into cheek
Thu, December 9, 2004 - 12:33 PMthere is something to being lefthanded that strikes us apart, but i don't think it is that directly tied to the specific event of childbirth. I think genetics, and the time in the womb are bigger influences
but yes, all the lefties are different
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Thu, December 9, 2004 - 10:03 PMsounds like typical anti-leftist demonizing to me. -
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Thu, December 9, 2004 - 10:09 PMyeah ... but we're steadfast together?
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Wed, February 2, 2005 - 2:21 PMleft-handedness and ambidexterity actually run in my family, so that may shine a negative light on the birth-trauma theory. -
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Fri, February 11, 2005 - 3:08 AMmy bubba is a lefty, perhaps ambidextrous, and it took 20 hours of labor before a c-section. I'm a lefty and almost killed my mom unfortunately. However, I've attributed both to my being 9 lbs 6 oz and my baby Drake being 9 lbs 7 oz (he beat me by an oz).
Nevertheless, two lefties, two difficult births. Perhaps it could be accounted for by the way babies are supposed to spin into the pelvis and lefty kids may spin the opposite way, which could result in not being positioned correctly. It is a good darwinian rationale, I doubt there's much merit but who knows. It sounds like a potential thesis in the making.
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Sun, September 4, 2005 - 1:05 PMI was not traumatic, except that my mom was in a full leg cast when she gave birth to me. I was quick and easy though.
The stat I heard the most was that the older the mother, the more likely you might be left handed. In one of my sci courses we went over fetal stages of development and it was mentioned that high testosterone levels at a certain stage was the key to left-handedness.
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Fri, September 9, 2005 - 10:36 AMMy mom was 19 and it took four hours with no complications.
I prefer the "lost twin" theory myself. "I would have had a right-handed twin, but I ate him."
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Mon, December 4, 2006 - 11:24 PMI am a child of hippies...ahem..
My mom was 25. She is also left-handed...the only one in her family
My paternal grandfather was born lefty but was tortured into being a righty
i was born over a month late, but I was under 5 lbs
I was pulled out with forceps...and my mom was sorta paranoid that maybe that is one of the reasons was so weird and underdeveloped as a child.
i learned to walk on my toes and still do to this day.
I am 31 and don't drive a car ..but neither does my (lefty) mom
i am very childlike for my age which makes it kinda difficult for me to function in "normal" realms of society...
AND i am a super ADDer and grew up with lots of emotional and learning difficulties and stuff.
So i likely mighta suffered some kind of birth trauma...but since i have lefties on both sides of the family it is hard to say that that is the reason i am a lefty.
My younger sister is a righty and had a normal birth.
she has emotional problems too, but she has better organizational skills..can drive..hold normal job..stuff like that.. just fine.
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Tue, November 27, 2007 - 5:39 PMNever heard about that, mine was easy even though I came way before my due time I was supposed to be born by the end of april and was born at the end of february and perfect did not even had to be on an incubator, I might be a phenomenon. Ha ha!!
