Was your mothers pregnancy with you difficult or high risk?

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Or was your autistic child's difficult or high risk?

as the evidence really suggests, difficult pregnancies have a righer risk of autism occurrence (and many birth defects as well)

as far as me, i slid out exactly to the day at 9 months, lol...nary a problem with my mom's pregnancy as she states it.....i drank 4 ounces of milk my first feeding, lmao.............the nurse was shocked!!

my 7 yr old son, who is a moderate autistic, little different story here

my wife late in her pregnancy developed pre-eclampsia (toxemia)....we caught it pretty quick as her legs swelled up like crazy and her blood pressure was slightly elevated ,130/90........she had no blood sugar problems

she was c-sectioned 2 weeks before due date......everything went fine, son was 8lbs 6 oz...............he ate like crazy too, lol

so now i was 42 when my son was conceived, and my wife was a higher risk pregnancy....now i can see how this stuff happens.......wheew!


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Yes, I came out like 20 days after the expected date, apparently I was making zero efforts to come out and so did my aspie mom (probably we both knew what I was in for ), so in the end they had to take me out with the forceps, they laid me and..nothing, not a cry, just plain mute

I was a month and a bit premature... but my sister who has what I would consider LFA had no problems

I had no problems, I was a few days late, but healthy, regular weight(6lbs.10oz). My sister, on the other hand, who got diagnosed with ADHD a couple of year ago, was born a month premature and had health problems, where she was in the hospital for a month.

I was born very premature (24 weeks gestation). I was actually not expected to survive (I was born 45 years ago, when neonatal technology was not as advanced as it is now).

As far as I know, my mother's pregnancy wasn't high risk for especially difficult. I was delivered via c-section (not by her choice), though, so not sure.

However, my mom was four months pregnant before she realized it, and had been on birth control pills the entire time.

The pregnancy proceeded fairly smoothly, I believe. My mother, a heavy smoker, quit smoking for the duration I inhabited her belly. I was delivered about a week before it was originally calculated that I would be born, but I think that's negligible. I was, however, completely purple (and silent) upon birth, which might indicate an oxygen shortage. How this occurred is not clear to me. I think i could note that my mother sadly had two failed births some years before I was born; after the second aborted pregnancy (not a surgical abortion, rather an extra-uteral pregnancy where the fertilised egg had nested in the wrong place), the doctor told my mother that it was very unlikely for her to ever have a child again. This is why my mother considers me a gift (not from God, as she's an atheist).

I was born a month and a half before due date, and my mother smoked for the duration of the pregnancy. Hell, there are pictures of her smoking while she was preggers!....but that's what they did in the 60s, I guess....

No, but my mom had difficulty conceiving and had to have fallopian tube surgery. I was actually born by c-section, which they did automatically in those days (mid-80s) when the mother had the surgery my mom did.

No problems other than gestational diabetes.

This sounds a lot like me. I was supposedly born almost a month late...I am sorta confused though, because my mom didn't know she was pregnant for the first couple of months because she continued to menstruate....So just maybe i wasn't late...she just wasn't pregnant in those early months...

When I was born...almost a month late...I was very small for a late baby...just 5 lbs...and i was delivered with forceps as well...and I was quiet...

If I remember correctly, I was not very quick to come out. I think my mother was pregnant with me for about 10 months or so. I'll have to ask her again, though. It's been a while since I heard that story.

What I do know for sure is that I had a lot of difficulty coming out. First they tried forceps, and when that didn't work, they had to suck me out.

thats still ahigh risk pregnancy...in no way i am saying it caused anything for you.but the percentages are higher in the populus

Oh yeah, and my mum's dad had Asperger's. Pretty high risk for having an Aspie kid, if you ask me....

Wow! You're here for some reason!

My son was born at 25 weeks and 1 day and weighed exactly 2 pounds. He stayed in the hospital for 82 days and was on several medications including steroids. I am very thankful that all I have is autism. He's wonderful!

Well, the only difficulty with my mothers pregnancy was the fact that I was born 4 months premature and weighed in at 1 lb 12 oz (793.786648 grams or .793 kg)