My mother, who was a maternity nurse, had several miscarriages/stillbirths before me. When she became pregnant with me in 1937 (I was born June 27, 1938), her doctor (Dr. Levine, I believe), told her he was going to give her something new that could help. What was it? It might have been DES, because that was new at the time. Although someone at NIH said it wasn't available to the general public at that time, I think that a doctor could have requested it. I have seen some other documentation that stated it was not limited to the "beginning in 1938" time frame. I have wondered about that, because I have had problems with anxiety and depression that began in my teen years. Also, one of my sons had an episode in which an immaturity of the nervous system caused him to stop breathing briefly as an infant due to a slight fever. The same son died at the age of 27 of lung cancer that metastasized to the brain and was inoperable, so I often wonder about this. It was about 6 months from diagnosis to his death.