Pregnancy, birth and infancy
- Were there any medical problems or major stresses during pregnancy such as a threatened miscarriage, bereavement, moving house, heavy workload, illness, accident, working to term?
- Was the child born more than two weeks early or two weeks late?
- Was labour either very quick or very drawn out?
- Was the birth complicated in any way? A forceps, Caesarean or ventouse delivery?
- Were there any other problems at birth, eg, with breathing, cord around the neck, blue baby, bruising, jaundice, mis-shapen head?
- Did your child weigh less than 5lbs at birth?
- Did your baby experience projectile vomiting and screaming sessions during the first three months of life?
- Any other feeding problems in the first six months?
- Was there any delay in learning to walk (older than 18 months)? Or did the child walk early (before 14 months), missing out or having a very brief crawling stage?
- In the first 18 months did the child suffer from any illness involving high fever, delirium or convulsions?
- Any serious illnesses before age 5?
- Did your child have little one-to-one stimulation and opportunity to move around freely in the first year or two?
