A Woman Who Used Drugs Through Her Eight Pregnancies Has Spoken Out About What It s Like To Be In The Grips Of An Addiction To Methamphetamine And The Horror Consequences For Infants

A woman who used drugs through her eight pregnancies has spoken out about what it's like to be in the grips of an addiction to methamphetamine and the horror consequences for infants.
Though she is now clean after 19 years battling substance abuse, Terrianne, 32, was still using ice in the first three months of her latest pregnancy before getting help. 
'It was hard, like I feel happy now that it wasn't (using drugs) the whole way through like the other (pregnancies) in the past,' she told .
'With one of my children, they were withdrawing (from ice) and that was because I used the whole way through the Pregnancy Due Date Calculator.'
Terrianne said she 'couldn't stop (using meth).

I was still in that bad addiction,' and with that baby 'There was jittering, the body would always like shake, very hard to settle.'
A woman who has used drugs through her eight pregnancies has spoken out about what it is like to be in the grips of an addiction to methamphetamine and the consequences for a baby.

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This is common for the thousands of babies born in Australia to mothers who used ice late in their pregnancies, with agonising withdrawal symptoms leading to feeding difficulties. 
'They can have real issues with the coordination of their jaw which means that they can't suck at the bottle or the breast,' midwife Elvira Earthstar, of the Women's Alcohol and Drug Service at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne said.
'These babies can also present with tremors or jitters.

So just a real pronounced shake in their hands.'
The difficulty with feeding can then lead to further developmental problems. 
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