Anyone know medical terms???

[SparklyGothKat]

As many of you know my DS has Cerebral palsy. He was diagnosed at 2 1/2 years after 2 years of being told that he was fine. Anyway just found our discharge letter from hosiptal when he was born and it says 'A.P.H doubtful cause; F/H/O C/palsy; small for dates' in the Antenatel section. Does this mean that they supected CP before he was born???

APH is ante partum heamorrhage, ie blood loss before birth

small for dates is self explanatory and refers to the expected gestational size of the baby...

not sure re the rest, i don;t know if CP can be diagnosed before birth.

maybe this was written shortly after birth?

can you call your hospital and find out more?

I'm not a doctor but I would read F/H/O C/Palsy as Family History Of Cerebral Palsy - have you got someone else in the family with CP?

Meant to add - not a doctor but do interpret clinical notes as part of my job

yes my cousin, but i don't remember discussing it with anyone before we started to doubt DS' milestones.

I was asked about family history of illness/conditions at my booking-in appointments with my pregnancies (was a long tick list IIRC) perhaps you mentioned it then???

same here, it is part of your maternity notes, questions re heart disease, diabetes, any other medical problems that run in families

Maybe, thats set my mind at rest, I panicked when I saw that, because I fought for ages to get the hospital to listen to me. It makes sense now.

BTW I did have blood loss before he was born. And he had IUGR, so I knew that. But it was just the C/palsy comment that threw me...

I'd agree prob Family History of cp