I have a daughter 45 years of age. When I conceived in 1968, I had a birth control device called an "I U D"--however the IUD travelled up into the uterus, and came out in the placenta after a full term pregnancy. My daughter was born healthy, but had weakness in a limb, a neurologist diagnosed her as having cerebral dyplegia. At age 12, she developed scoliosis--bad "s" curve--however went on to train as a nurse (R.N.) received her BSc. in nursing, but she lives with a badly turned in left foot and a smaller left leg and two sizes difference in shoe size. Do you know, or can you attribute any of this to having an IUD in the placenta for those 9 months? I hemorrhaged for one day in the 3rd month--could have lost her--