is a concept of the mother passing problems on to the child through the womb-but not of a genetic nature, but a microbiological one. Someone passed an article on to me this am and it is really all about this without calling it this.
I cannot begin to tell you how many points I agree with in this article, it is wonderful researchers are doing this work. It is about autism and that the stem of it may well be from the health of the mother at the time of carrying the child.
I often will plead with my patients to wait until they are much better balanced before becoming pregnant. This is not only becuase they themselves will go through the pregnancy in a much happier, healthier, less symptomatic way, but to help prevent any impact of the IC on the child. This is not per se to prevent IC, although, that could happen. A host of other disorder often happen--eczema, asthma, chronic respiratory infections with weak immunity, bowel issues, etc.... These are not things you want your child to start life out with. It complicates everything and the traditional treatments for them make the situation worse.
When the mother is in good balance, in my opinion, this prevents these things from happening and sets the child up for a much healthier immune system. When the child comes into life with a weaker system, in my non autism experience, I believe then the chemicals this child is exposed to can trigger the autism, especially with very strong chemicals such as vaccine (sorry, I know this is a heated subject).
This is kind of crossing several subjects into one, but, the bottom line is--should you wait to conceive until you are in better health, and the absolute answer in my opinion is a big YES--for you and for your baby. Here is the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/opinion/sunday/immune-disorders-and-autism.html?_r=1&smid=fb-share
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Thank you so much for sharing
Thank you so much for sharing this. Waiting to get healthy again before having kids is hard. But knowing that it will be better for everyone makes sense. This is really important to me. The health of myself and my future kids is so extremely important. So thanks for posting this.
Wow. Great article. But don't
Wow. Great article. But don't you kind of feel like saying, "Well, duh! That's what I've been trying to say!"
it is encouraging that this research is being done in the mainstream world too The writer mentions that mothers with flu and other infections had a higher chance of a child with autism. I wonder if those mothers were given antibiotics while pregnant. I participated in a research study about autism with my son at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and they asked huge numbers of questins about my health before, during, and after the pregnancy. I was glad that these questions were being asked.
Thanks for this info!
Thank you for posting this
Thank you for posting this Matia. It's quite scarry to read about the link between mother's health and pregnancy. It made me realize once again how important it is to wait for your approval before getting pregnant and how magical it will be to hear you say some day that it might be ok to go for it. :)