Medium Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase Deficiency (MCADD)

This is a personal story shared by a family who child has MCADD. Our daughter, Rebecca, came into this world on the morning of December 4th, 2005. It was a normal pregnancy and we had no complications from the delivery. She was a beautiful baby weighing in at 6 lbs 10 oz, and 21 inches long. Like any parent who has their first child, you check to see if they have 10 fingers and 10 toes, and that her Apgar scores come back in the normal range. Well they did, and after a 2-day hospital stay, we went home. That’s when [...]

This story is shared by a family whose child has MCADD. Written April 2000 by Alex’s Mother Alex was born on October 1, 1998 Alex's Happy Story When I tell people in the metabolic disorder community Alex's happy story, I get a reaction synonymous to that of, "I just had a baby a week ago. I have 5 nannies and a personal trainer. I sleep 9 hours a night, uninterrupted, and I work out 2 hours a day. I'm already losing weight." This is a luxury afforded to a rare few. So is the inexpensive comprehensive newborn screening with tandem mass [...]

This story is shared by a family who lost a child to MCADD. On February 19, 1998, Ben entered our life. He was a beautiful, full term baby boy and our third child. Ben received the minimum state-mandated newborn screenings after he was born and was thought to be healthy. During routine well-baby check-ups, Ben was thought to be a typical child. He was growing and developing normally. During his brief 2½ years of life, Ben had learned to swim, to identify landmarks on the way to his grandparents' house, to distinguish among the vehicles his various grandparents drove, to drive [...]