[AnnieBL]

I was interested in the reference to meds prescribed for preventing miscarriage being a cause of GDD. The drug was in fact diethylstilbestrol (DES). Both my stepdaughter and stepson were DES kids (among the last), and seem so far to have escaped the worst of its effects (though neither has any children of their own). No sign of which I am aware of any GDD. I do wonder however how many of us here may have been DES sons. In my own case I think that I was early enough to escape that particular hazard, and while my mother had german measles in the fifth month of pregnancy, that seems too late on for any ill effects. On the other hand, my father who was an army reservist was called up days before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, thus putting an end to less than a year of normal married life just a couple of weeks after my conception. My mother's life was fairly chaotic after that, but such disruption must also have applied to many other women pregnant at that time.