Autism linked to major pregnancy stress.

[Antheia]

I found an atricle that says they have found links to major stress between the 24th and 28th week of pregnancy being a cause of Autism.

When I was 24 weeks pregnant with DS1 my mum passed away and as you can imagine that would cause a lot of stress and now he is starting to have testing done to see if he has ASD because he shows a lot of traits.

What does everyone think?

Oh and I don't want to worry anyone here thinking if they have a little stress then their child will have Autism. This is just from my own research and needing answers.

[emc2]

I was helping out with a local group here once and also just other friends of friends stories. So most of the background I've heard is a combination of Mum's having certain medical conditions like low thyroid, and traits running in both families
and
different stresses during pregnancy
so my neighbour's brother's son, the Mum walked a lot in summer, and the doctor's warned her not to;
acquaintance who had a son, where she worked long hours in their business;
stress but feeling that the cause was her son's vaccinations.

I don't know if there's much to these theories though. imho it's more genetic and the stress might bring the autism traits out a lot more??

[MissM]

Wow. Is there any real evidence if this?

I dont really know what to say but i feel as though 'blaming' stress is not very fair to the mama :-( how severe would the stress have to be?

I dont know much about Autism at all tbh, my cousins son is autistic but we dont have much to do with them.

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[Early Kids]

That's rather interesting, I'd be interested in reading the article if you could PM me the link.

My entire pregnancy with both my boys were stressful, DS1 has been diagnosed with an ASD, DS2 we have no concerns with at all.

[Antheia]

It says stress like a death or job loss or long distance move. So not just normal stresses.

[Yeddi]

Do you have the link or title to this study please Antheia. My DD is PPD-NOS (or A-typical autism). I was carrying her when I was in the Navy and during that period of my pregnancy I had to fight to get taken off 13 hour watches, as well as fighting the repercussions of my refusal to do other stupid and dangerous things they thought they could make me do, like stand in the ****ing down rain for half an hour in the middle of winter. If my DD's issues have something to do with what those a-holes did to me, I'd very much want to know.

[Antheia]

Have pm'ed you the link Yeddi.

[Freya]

Hmm Ds2 is currently undergoing assessment for ASD and my pregnancy with him was beyond stressful between 20-37wks. I always wonder if my pregnancy being so bad is the reason he is what he is. Could you pm me the article link to please?

[Sterla]

Well, if there's any truth to this article, I may have something to worry about in the future .

DH was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphoma when I was about 20 weeks pregnant, and he was going through all the tests, then treatment - which he finishes in a couple of days when I'll be 32 weeks pregnant. So, basically having the higher levels of stress through the exact part of pregnancy they're talking about.