Long term effects on children whose mothers were given ritodrine during pregnancy?

I was given this drug in 1983 while pregnant with my twins. Both of them had had psychological and social problems. They still have problems to this day. I truly believe it was the drug that caused it.

my son also has emotional problems too and struggles with depression and anxiety. I took the drug in 1981. I also began having panic attacks from it. It never occurred to me that it could have been from the ritodrine.

I started ritodrine in 1984, I was on it for the last 4 months of my pregnancy. My son has had anxiety and depression, alcoholism for most of his life. It never occurred to me that this medication could have been the cause.

I also took ritodrine in 1988. My son has struggled with anxiety and social problems all his life. I want to pursue this further. Has there been any class action lawsuit against the manufacturers of ritodrine?

I was prescribed ritodrine in 1988 and my son and I both had heart arrhythmia's for years, afterward. When taking the medication, it made my heart race for an hour afterwards and the pills were prescribed to be taken every two hours, night and day, which meant no restful sleep! I was miserable on bed rest and drinking a gallon of water everyday for nearly 6 months. I’ve always worried what effect this drug might have had on my child. After reading these comments I’m concerned about any further complications with heart and neurology. Please keep me up to date through this forum. Thank you!

I am the result of Ritodrine. My mom was in and out of the hospital with me. Had to have her cervix stitched even. I have really bad anxiety. I'm not dumb or slow but I have a lot of issues. Weight gain, pcos. Lots of stuff. I wish someone would start a class action. I'd jump on that train.

I was prescribed Yutopar at about week 22 of my pregnancy. My son was born at about 27 weeks and weighed 910 grams. This was in 1984 and he is now 35 years old. His early years were marked with delayed developmental milestones. At 1 week he had surgery for a rupture in his intestine. He suffered from failure to thrive. As time went on he suffered from constant ear infections, eventually creating a need for reconstructive surgery. He also was diagnosed as having ADHD. All that said, at 35 he has a college degree, a wife and family of three girls ages 3 to 9. Despite his early struggles he grew up with very few complications. My question now is about his children, my grandchildren. His girls are struggling with anxiety and emotional problems. I'm fairly certain they also have ADHD. I'm wondering how deep the effects of the drug Yutopar have been researched. Is there any reason to think the effects could pass down to his children?

My daughter was born in @981 and has mental problems so bad none of the family can deal with her at all.

It just occurred to me today to Google Ritodrine. I took it in 1982 and my son has had anxiety and depression and well. Also lots of intestinal issues. I never correlated it before I read all of these posts!

Hi Brandy Ashley,

In 1992 I was given something similar and now my adult daughter has been diagnosed as bipolar and with depression and anxiety. I want answers. The drug as I recalled was Brethine

I was on this in 1983. My daughter was born Aug 1983 .she has had depression. Social anxiety and she's coming up on 33 and really there's no meds that help her. The social anxiety is just as bad as the depression and I read a few of the other responses about heart issues. When she was in gym class or active she'd turn blue around the mouth. We went to a specialist and they found nothing wrong - at the time I never thought about the Ridodrine ..I've Googled this subject before. Found nothing...

I took Ritodrine from weeks 32-36 to stop preterm labor with my firstborn, now 28.
She was delivered at 37.5 weeks. She never "consolidated sleep" (and problems remain), and had night terrors. Also, she was diagnosed as bipolar 2, and always has had mood management issues. Still has problems functioning, although she is very intelligent. I asked my ob/gyn for my 2nd pregnancy if there were any studies associating mental health or sleep issues with Ritodrine (because it had made me quite jittery)--and he said that the medical profession "would NEVER do follow up studies on children because the drug was so good at preventing premature birth that no one would fund it as liability issues would increase." Hmm. BTW, he prescribed daily Magnesium supplements (200 mg) during pregnancy, which prevented preterm labor with my second pregnancy--even though the fibroid that had caused it in the first pregnancy grew to over twice the size it had been.

I took Yutopar and had a drip in 1989. My son is schizophrenic (pediatric, now age 28) and I have early onset Parkinson's. If people are still on this thread, would love to know what's up.