I am about 10 weeks and 5 days along in this pregnancy. I am currently taking 70 mgs of methadone each day, and that is after my Dr ALLOWED me to go down 5 mgs when I expressed a need to start an immediate detox upon discovering that I was pregnant. Of course this doctor believes that I am some sort of ignorant redneck who just needs to be educated about why methadone is the best choice for my tiny, unborn baby. Of course as an opiate addict I coudn't possibly be an intelligent, concerned Mother trying to give my baby the best start in life, especially since I cannot imagine the best possible start in life being a lonely and miserable existance in NICU withdrawing from a very powerful drug. As far as I know, if I detox from methadone right now, I will be risking 2 things: POSSIBLE pre-term labor or POSSIBLE miscarriage. No one has mentioned any other risks. I am willing to accept these risks. If something goes wrong I will have no one to blame but myself. But if I am forced to stay on methadone and my child suffers for weeks on end from withdrawal, and/or ends up with learning disabilities, behavioral problems, or eventually a serious opiate addiction - I may feel that my only recourse is some kind of revenge against the people who took away my choice for my child. Now it is true that I am the one taking methadone, and I am the one who did not use birth control which resulted in this pregnancy, but I am not the one who is keeping this baby on drugs. I have a solution for this problem ( the baby is not the problem, the methadone in our system is) and I am being kept from solving the problem in the best way possible. Does anyone else have a problem with this?