Smoking during pregancy and autistic/aspie children...

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Does anyone know if there is a relation?

My parents smoked BUT, MOST in their generation did.

My mother smoked for two months while she was pregnant with me as she didn't know she was pregnant.

Yes, I think that my mother did smoke while pregnant with me, but her sisters also smoked during their pregnancies, and all my cousins are totally NT. My sister is also NT. I don't think there is connection between smoking during pregnancy and ASDs, because rates of ASDs seem to be going up as rates of maternal smoking are going down.

My parents smoked and neither quit for the sake of children. She smoked throughout pregnancy. I was exposed to a lot of secondhand smoke during the first part of my pregnancy, call it the same thing. My daughter is mildly autistic. Then again, my son seems to be showing more traits by the day and I refused to even set foot in a place that smoking was allowed during the second pregnancy - even if the place had a smoking section and I wasn't in it. Not enough evidence for a causal connection.

My Mom smoked fairly heavily during her entire pregnancy and I've got mild AS. But then again, my cousin's Mom smoked during her entire pregnancy and non of them are AS. I don't think the two are related.

My mother didn't; she never did anything that could harm my development other than what's innately in her [genes].

My mom never smoked while she was pregnant with me.

My mom smoked before she knew she was pregnant.
It was weird...she didn't know she was till she was kinda far along because she still had her mensies for the first trimester..
I was born a month late and I had a low birth weight...but I doubt that necc. had anything to do with the smoking...she did quit as soon as she found out.
I wonder about the being born late and weighing 5 lbs. My mom also told my that my fingers and toes seemed underdeveloped to her, and I was a pretty scrawny kid at first, (though I got really fat later on)

My being born small and late probably has little to do with my emotional immaturity and my slowness in catching on/developing compared to other kids....but the term "late bloomer" comes to mind....but I don't automaticly connect that to her smoking.

I also have wonderings about people who's moms smoked pot while they were pregnant.

My mother has never smoked in her life. Her parents both smoked heavily, but she's "normal".

IMO smoking is blamed for far too many things. Most parents of ASD kids don't smoke, never did.

My mother smoked for 19 or 20 years... though she didn't when she was pregnant, she started up after, when she felt it was safe. I lived in a house full of smoke for years, and some people couldn't stand the smell, but I was so used to it I didn't knopw what smell hey were talking about!

My Mother did not smoke when she was pregnant with me. I don't know if her Mother smoked while pregnant with her, but from what I was told she did do a lot of not so great things while my Mother was still in the womb.
I did not smoke during my pregnancy with my son.

There really haven't been any smokers in my family whatsoever. I never smoked when I was pregnant, didn't drink, followed the Bradley diet to the T, avoided all the foods and everything on the "bad" lists. I was super, super, careful when I was pregnant, and my son still has pdd-nos.

The only things I can say is that I was under a LOT of stress and anxiety when I was pregnant because my husband and I were NOT getting along at ALL! He kept doing all these really wierd, and at that time incomprehensible things, I thought I was going crazy because I could not believe it. I thought for sure that we would be divorced, that I would be raising our baby alone, we were fighting all the time.
If anything could be related to what I did or didn't do, it's that I let myself get worked up into a frenzy a lot of times with him. I remember people saying it's not good for the baby to be so upset and sad, and I remember thinking, "what could possibly happen?"