# adults who were born premature **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 4, 2003, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853 "2003-12-04T03:01:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853/21 "2003-12-05T20:59:59Z")
I was born several decades prematurely. A world without space travel? You can have it. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853/22 "2003-12-05T21:26:10Z")
I was born a couple months early, checked in at a bit over 4 lbs. Twins have a tendancy to be premature. It was 1967. I came into this world feet first. I’m 6 feet, 185. No glasses, no freakish abnormalaties, except for a deviated septum and a shitty right knee. My brother is an inch or two taller. He wears glasses and went prematurely grey, but that could be easily written off as genetics. My brother and I spent time together in the incubator until I peed in his face. I think any study may very well exclude twins, just to limit any variables, so there’s my $.02 ---
**Author:** ![c42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a87d85/32.png) [@c42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c42)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853/23 "2003-12-05T21:48:57Z")
Four weeks premature (or was it six)? 6 foot 6 and a half, 140 kilograms, and four degrees. But i have crap eyesight ---
**Author:** ![Loneraven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c0e974/32.png) [@Loneraven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loneraven)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853/24 "2003-12-05T22:08:03Z")
Three months premature, here. I have small stature (five foot four, 49 kg) but am the exact same height as my mother, so that may not have anything to do with it. I do have bad eyesight (although, when I’m wearing glasses my eyesight is better than most people’s), and weak arches in my feet. Oh, and I was born with a hole in my my heart. I was forgetting that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/adults-who-were-born-premature/216853.md?page=1)