Pitocin connected w/rise in autism???
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Pitocin connected w/rise in autism???
| Tue, 02-05-2008 - 6:36pm |
This was an interesting article...I would be interested to see if there really is a connection...I know personally I had the gel to induce labor, pitocin, narcotics for pain & an epidural.


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Oh great, just another reason for me to feel bad about Tom's birth.
Hi Ginny,
I did not need pitocin.
I was induced with gel and pitocin with both of my kids.
well, I had NONE of those drugs or anything else during labor and delivery with any of my children that is on the spectrum or close.
4 of my 5 children were born w/ absolutely no intervention besides breaking of the bag of waters and an episiotomy. My #4 child (Martha-- Dx w/ dyslexia but otherwise perfectly normal) had meconium staining in the waters when they were broken so when labor stalled I had pitocin for about 2 hours and that included a IV and other stuff, but no pain meds or antibiotics.
Weston's labor was picture perfect, no drugs at all. His delivery was absolutely normal until his shoulders got stuck and his cord was wrapped around his neck several times. He was born blue and sent immediately to oxygen and the newborn nursery. There was nothing that I did or the Dr did that could have changed that situation. Looking back Weston had signs of autism from every early on. I do think his is genetic and he's just more autistic than DH, me, MIL, FIL, etc. Was it the trauma of his birth? could be, does it really matter? I don't think so, what's done is done and now we just have to go on. We're beyond the blaming stage of grief on to the lets do something about it stage.
I do think we all go through stages where it really hurts us when we think we could have changed something or done something better to make our kids suffer less. I also think that autism is a bit of a gift for him. He sees the world differently, he's very happy and very gifted academically, would that have been different if he wasn't autistic? I don't know. I have up days and down days. Autism is difficult but doable.
Betsy
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