Cos we live in a world where people think they can control everything, and if you have all the tests and follow the dr you will be all ok. And for many people, this works and therefore they can attribute this to having the right scans and eating the right things and having/not having induction/vag birth/c section/immunisation/not immunisation/breast/formula feeding with extra vitamin x.......
You can't control everything. Sometimes stuff just happens. It is the way you deal with the 'stuff' that influences how your life will live.
Why live in fear before the stuff happens, because it might not be as bad if it ever does happen to you.
I do not currently (that I know of) have a child with autism, perhaps thats why I used the term I did. I am also in the U.S., again perhaps thats why I used the term I did and perhaps because of the term being in much of the media. Personally I do not see the difference, but again thats probably because I am not living with autism. So I do apologize to any one who might have been offended. That said I am hopeful that this thread will not turn into a discussion of terminology as that was never my intent.
As I stated, I do not currently have any children that have been diagnosed nor am I thinking I need a diagnosis yet. I do however have a 1 year old although I do not think he is really showing any signs. If any of my children have a variation of autism it would be my 3 year old little boy but I do not foresee it preventing him from having a normal, interacting social life.
My question was centered more around having more children, being older and having more children, knowing others who have children with autism, and just the curiosity from that article. My wife's body just will not deliver naturally from start to finish. So being older is a concern in and of itself and if there is a link to inductions naturally it would be something to think about. Perhaps my curiosity is just that it is a fascinating thought - inductions having a link to autism. There is much controversy and many view points but nothing that is rock solid that I have ever seen or heard of. So again it was all of the above that caused me to ask the question. Kind of my own sudo-scientific research if you will. Who better to ask than those who have children with autism.
Anyhow, I apologize if I upset or irritated anyone with my terminology. I am still curious if inductions were involved with any one who today has a child with autism. Like Kate and Maz said, some times things just happen. Maybe thats the case with autism and maybe not but the truth is every time we decide to bring a new life into our family's we are rolling the dice to a certain degree - maybe a big degree.
Ah no one is offended here its great that someone is showing an interest in autism full stop.
I really dont think it matters what type of delivery one has in regards to autism. I have a few friends with children with autism and we have all delivered differently..so induction, age and state of mother really is nothing to say the least. Many people I know worry more about the MMR needles given at the 12 month mark here in Australia...I to was one and waited for months after the actual due date of these....Mateauz is 18 months old and has only jsut recieved them now.
Unless you have a family history or other children with autism I wouldnt really worry in length about it. I agree with the others...its more to do with genetics then birth situations because if that was the case I would have 2 autistic children...instead I have one and a child that suffers from cerabal palsey
I'm not offended either I too think its good that someone takes an interest in Autism.
I do understand the fear of it now.... totally. But remember, Autism is a spectrum. There are varying degrees of it, and not everyone is low functioning, or has a hard time communicating. Heck, most of Silicon Valley is ASD.... seriously, its a majority there and its considered "normal". Bill Gates is Autistic. Its not the end of the world to have the diagnosis
Wow, interesting article. I haven't read it before and honestly my brain is kind of fuddled at the moment and I skipped over a lot of it but here is my 2 c worth.
My son has autism - Aspergers. My SIL has 2 children on the spectrum and we are guessing that my other SIL may have one as well. Just after my DS was diagnoised my SIL rang me about a study linking pre-eclampsia with autism as we both had pre-eclampsia. I have also read the ones about vaccinations and quite and recently there was a report that they have found 4 genes that 'may contribute' to autism.
Our story is that we were induced with syntocin after rapid onset of pre-eclampsia. I remember vividly the horrible moment when they broke my waters and I could feel my DS start to panic. He was born 5 hrs later (only 2 on syntocin as I ripped out my drip and the midwives agreed to see how I went on my own) and he also got stuck under my hip bone and I pushed for 2 hrs - so I guess as births go it wasn't untraumatic.
Having said that I believe that DS had issues before he was born. in utero his movements were extremely forceful. He responded to loud noises and bass music very strongly - after one movie I was left very bruised and extremely sore.
I guess you can also look at it from the other point of view, knowing that labour stems from contributuions from mother and baby - perhaps it's not that inducement causes autism, rather that children with autism require interventions in their birth???
Also I think the difficulty with autism is that it is so different. Some people aren't diagnoised until they are 8-9 yrs old. Many parents see big changes around 1 or 4 yrs old and believe this is when they're child autism starts. Hard to define a study when each family perceives it so differently
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its great that someone is showing an interest in autism full stop.
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