Did you or your aspie child have a traumatic birth?

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In a recent thread, several people mentioned that they had what could be described as "traumatic" births, some involving lack of oxygen for a few seconds or brain injury. I was a breech birth and my adopted son was born with the chord wrapped around his neck. We are both Aspies. And our neighbor has an autistic child who was quite premature with a few delivery issues. I'm wondering how common birth trauma is in the life experience of people on the autustic spectrum. Could it be a cause or contributing factor? What does everyone else think?

It could be a contributing factors, perhaps even more than that for some people?

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/24689.php

There has been a thread before on this, as you wrote. Well, I can only explain what I've read in some articles in a newspaper about this. Apparently many autistic children had troubles being born. It seems that the child and the mothe physically ''work'' together to get the child born. Autistic children in that situation suffer there for the firs time from their lack of communication skills. My birth took two days and my umbilical cord was wrapped twice around my neck.

I was breech and my mother said it took something crazy like 20 hours or more for me to be born..... YIKES!

Both of my girls were c-section births. My teen daughter was an emergency one. She was blue when she was born and wouldn't cry. She is diagnosed with ADD and is being screen for anxiety and depression right now (interesting....). My preschool daughter was a planned c-section. Everything was smooth as could possibly be. She is a little Aspie.

my son was born 2 weeks late, but other than that I was in labor for 6 hours, the delivery was textbook, there was no trauma (other than the normal trauma of birth) and he was perfectly healthy...

No, I just arrived in the middle of a performance of 'Ben Hur' at the local movie theater.

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I was born premature at 2 lbs. 10 oz. I was an emergency c-section because my heart rate was down, so they had to get me out or else I'd have died. Unfortunately, I'm the only aspie in my family, but I think my great uncle from my mom's side is autistic, so I guess it runs in our family, just that it probably skips a generation.

And yeah, I also had to be kept in the hospital for three months because my respiratory system wasn't working either. So yeah, many complications at my birth.

I'm also ADHD, so I guess traumatic births can play a role in ASD and ADHD.

^^ Yaye, I must say I find this very interesting indeed. I am not quite certain if my little birth may be considered happily traumatic, however I believe my mother's happy immune system began attacking myself whilst I was living within my mother. I required to be born a little early (my birth was predicted to be the 6th October, yet I was born 25th September).

I was a C-section. I don't know what that implies.

According to Dr. Tony Attwood's famous book on Asperger's Syndrome, many Aspies had difficult births. Whether the birth problems contribute to the syndrome or the syndrome to the birth problems is not known.

My mother was in labour for 48 hours with me, which is a very long time. She had a double water sac, I think -- so when her waters broke, I still couldn't come out at once. It took them a long time to figure out what was wrong. I was also quite big at birth, I think 8 lbs and 4 ounces.

I also developed a rash immediately when they put me in the warm room with the other babies, so they moved me to a regular ward, where it was cooler.

My mother had a very difficult pregnancy with me, but I think the birth was relatively easy. I was a little jaundiced though.

I was born a month late, I was underweight and I was pulled out with foreceps..my mom had a theory that it might have been the foreceps that addlepated me.

A colleague of mine has Narcissistic Personality Disorder and he was a breach birth with the umbilical cord around the neck..unconscious on leaving the womb...but he likes to overdramatcize his birth story..so no telling what really happened.....My point being that while not exactly NT...he is hyper-social and manipulative....I frequently refer to him as the evil cousin of the aspies...he is also dyslexic and has a photographic memory.

I did not have a traumatic birth that I'm aware of -- in papers I seen no birth complications were listed, anyway. My autistic younger sister didn't have a traumatic birth, either.

I know that I was born a month late, but I haven't been told of anything else unusual.