I have just learned that my adopted newborn baby mother was a heroin addict and must decide what to do with the information. My lot in life is that I was presented with a difficult task of raising a child that had a mother doing drugs, and due to this, I may not know what can happen to my baby within its first few minutes, days, or even months of its life. As such, this is a situation in life that may not necessarily have positive outcomes. Research shows that symptoms of heroin use in the mother while pregnant can cause birth defects and seizures in the baby, resulting in a possible early death. Based on the mother’s drug use alone, more symptoms could include vomiting, diarrhea, a fever, dehydration, sleeping issues, and other negative side
