As many parents are, my wife and I have always had a fear of having an Autistic child. I was poking around on the forums and found an article where I believe the case was being made that a very "possible" link to Autism could be induction. My wife and I currently have had four children, all vaginally but all induced. Only one was done early because the Doctor was going to be on vacation and even then was only early by 7 days. My oldest was I think two weeks late and my last two were all over but by just a few days. Basically my off spring like to hang out in mums tummy so we have to evict them.
Anyhow, I was wondering if any parents of Autistic children could comment regarding the article on bellybelly (see below link) and how induction relates/related to your autistic child's birth?
Just a quick note, it is more acceptable if you say 'a child with autism' rather than 'an autistic child'. There are many components to a child and a diagnosis of autism is just one of them.
cheers,
k
ETA- i noticed the article also uses 'autistic children', so understand if that's where you got the term from. I;m just trying to spread awareness of putting the person/child first followed by their disability/medical condition/variation/extra factor.
Do any of your children show signs of spectrum traits at all? Do they have behaviouraly issues that are present with children who have autism? Im just wondering as your post obviously shows concern about your childrens birth's
Autism is not something that is caught later in life...its always present, its just to what degree and are we as parents blinded to it in baises to our children.
As for austim and induction.....hmmm my child was born 1 week prior to EDD and via an uncomplicated c/s. I knew something wasnt right from in utereo but could never put my finger on it. There is actually a section on BB about autism and 2 of us BB memebers have starting journalling our lives with our children who are on the spectrum. If you click on 'mario' in my signature it will take you to mine.
As humans we have to always find a purpose and meaning to why things like this happen. Sometimes we need to just except that they do, stop dwelling on the what if's and concentrate on the how to deal with them. We cant help our children with we dont look forward
I'm only new to the idea of parenting a super kid. But personally, I don't care how its termed, autistic, child with autism... etc etc... Matilda might care as she gets older, some do (when reading the Autism forums), but personally I don't care.
I choose to use the term "on the autistic spectrum" with Matilda. If someone asks me what is going on, I say "Matilda has Asperger's which is on the Autistic Spectrum" so people can understand a few different things. One that it is a spectrum not a definate thing, one child with autism is completely different from another, they just have similar traits. Two, that Matilda isn't Autistic. It is not who she is, its what she has ....
Matilda was an induced labour, but I'm not entirely sure if that was the cause. Asperger's runs in my husbands side of the family (as we've discovered in the past few years). There are an awful lot of genetic markers. Its a neurobiological disease, so its not something you can prevent, whereas you can prevent an induction.... kwim?
Just moving this to special needs
Last edited by christy; July 27th, 2009 at 08:54 AM.
I think my little fella is danging of the edge of the spectrum, the research and anecdotal evidence I have found thus far indicates strong family/genetic factors (often undiagnosed until the child is) to be the main element.
I'm not sure how a 'one off' event could make those changes/differences to a brain iykwim?
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.
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my child was born 1 week prior to EDD and via an uncomplicated c/s. I knew something wasnt right from in utereo but could never put my finger on it. There is actually a section on BB about autism and 2 of us BB memebers have starting journalling our lives with our children who are on the spectrum. If you click on 'mario' in my signature it will take you to mine.
not a definate thing, one child with autism is completely different from another, they just have similar traits. Two, that Matilda isn't Autistic. It is not who she is, its what she has 
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