Posted on 09/24/2006 10:45:49 PM PDT by Coleus
I have known perhaps 75 or 80 different families with autistic children since my son was diagnosed 10 years ago.
Perhaps one or two of those families conceived past the age of 40. The vast majority of us had our austic child in our late 20s, early 30s.
There is such a small percentage of autistic kids born to 40+ parents that that study and statistic are completely irrelevant.
I have known perhaps 75 or 80 different families with autistic children since my son was diagnosed 10 years ago.
Perhaps one or two of those families conceived past the age of 40. The vast majority of us had our austic child in our late 20s, early 30s.
There is such a small percentage of autistic kids born to 40+ parents that that study and statistic are completely irrelevant.
Agreed. My daughter was 19 when she had my grandson and his dad was 25. Not an age thing here either.
ADHD and autism are currently the flavor of the year diagnoses.
I'm pleased to see that someone with a little power is calling for a look at ultrasound. I personally KNOW that Pitocin-induction deliveries play a big, big part in the problem (see the 6/91 article on autism in the British Lancet), but I also believe that there are multiple genetic factors that lend a tendency in some family lines toward autistic manifestations from certain perinatal insults, and I believe ultrasound may constitute one of those. I recently learned that US is NOT actually ultrasound but RF or radio frequency, and I know an ultrasound tech who regularly does them for pregnancy dating and who says she would NEVER have one done if she was pregnant because she can see that it is uncomfortable for the fetus. RF is used to ablate aberrant nervous tissue in a heart wiring condition known as Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which can make athletic types drop dead during exertion. It's also the player in the "ultrasound" treatments that heats up muscle tissue and bursae and thereby tames inflammation. It can cause significant burns and is the vehicle for cooking in a microwave oven.
I know for a fact it lyses red blood cells, so how can that be okay for a fetus? I think it's playing a part in the epidemic. It doesn't matter if it affects only 1 in 166 (very high incidence) if it affects even one child who would otherwise be free of autistic symptoms. Autism is a real BITCH for everyone concerned.
To determine date of confinement in pregnancy, it's close enough to figure forward from mid-cycle about 273 days or 10 lunar months (4 weeks each); you don't need to zap the fetus. Another pretty reliable method is to figure your doc is about a month early with his traditional calculation approach and can thereby snooker you into too much intervention because it's actually not time yet to deliver. Then you're into induction with an agent that dog breeders no longer use because of the morbidity/mortality rate and has been off-list since 1977 for human birthing but the doctors are still pushing because they have an important golf game.
Caveat emptor.
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