I personally feel that taking "any" level of dex (especially for as long as Julia has--31 weeks) is going to mean less masculinization than not taking any at all throughout the entire pregnancy.  Dex can cause high blood pressure and water retention and those are not good for Mother during confinement.   I think it is important that they look to the Mother’s health formerly because  that is what is most important in sustaining a pregnancy.

I am wondering if they ever consider caesarians in this case, because I carried my last two babies to week 36 and then they felt they were better being off out than in.  Surely this is a case where a baby is better off being delivered early?  I guess if they did that, this would mean just hanging on for another 4 weeks and then delivering baby earlier and getting her the treatment she needs thus a lot earlier and avoiding at least four weeks of possible exposure there?  The othething that I wondered was wouldn’t they have to wean you off the dex anyway orhad they stopped it completely Julia?  I don’t really know how they work these things because I guess with your first daughter there would have been far more exposure than the new baby girl concerned and they will certainly have avoided any major virilization of the new baby girl with the amount of dex therapy you have had.

The most crucial time I would have thought was around sixth week, tenth week and very early stages of pregnancy when the genital tissue first starts to develop into either  one sex or the other. The further on you get in the pregnancy the less chances of even drugs known to be have tetrogenic effects to affect the baby from what I gathered.  So over exposure to hormones would only be the same really.    Certainly a lot less than would have been the case for their first daughter anyway.  I’m sure they know what they are doing and are taking those things into consideration anyway.

Regards,

Anne-Marie