AS and Caesarean Birth

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I was a normal birth. It'd be interesting to see whether brain damage due to birth complications could induce symptoms of autism (say, perhaps the damage was in regions affected by autism?).
I'm definitely a genetically induced aspie, though. My father is, as my mom says, "textbook autistic," and my mother, though she doesn't want to admit it, is very aspie-esq.

EDIT: I also want to add that I know a surprising amount of people who were C-section babies, and none of them are autistic. In fact, the C-section babies I know are some of the most charismatic, neurotypical friends I have hahaha. Of course, I don't think this has anything to do with them being C-section babies. I just thought it was a funny coincidence.

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No. That's only for words of the 2. declination. Foetus, or correctly fetus, is of the 4. declination, and therefore the plural nominative is in fact just fetus in Latin.

Normal. Though I was a preemie. My brother who was born at full term was also autistic, so I don't think it's the births. I'm surprised the number of c-section is so high. Among all the people I know only two were born by c-section. I think a lot of them are not necessary. It's not like 1/3 of the women die during childbirth before c-section, right?

My mom told me not too long ago that she should have had a c section with me because I was stuck inside her and the doctor had to use tongues to grab my head and pull me out and I was all covered in BM because I had pooped in her uterus due to stress and it got all inside me I was in the hospital for five days after birth. She told me she should have sued the doctor but didn't because she wanted to move on and enjoy being a mother and at least she had me, she didn't want to bother with lawsuits. She also said I should have been transferred to the other hospital after being pulled out of there.

So my mother had a hard labor and delivery with me and I almost died.

My sister and I were both born through c-sections, I have AS but she's an NT!

I really don't think there is a link between autism/AS and being born through c-sections. I'm sure there are many NT's who are born through c-sections and Aspies who are born normally.

Truthfully, I find many of these random links to autism/AS to be complete BS since there is no proof whatsoever!

I was born normally, but my parents had issues with my mom getting pregnant. She had endometriosis and needed surgery before she was able to get pregnant.

My younger, very NT, sister, was also born normally.

I was born completely naturally (no drugs either!) My Mom said it was a very easy delivery. She didn't even know she was in labour because it was virtually painless. It was almost too late for her to make it to the hospital. She did though, and I was born about a 1/2 hour later.

Normal... though I was born about 2 weeks early.

Normal birth, but I was born with hip dysplasia--so I had to wear braces during most of my infancy.

Caesarean with complications. D: I very nearly died, if it weren't for the fact I miraculously woke up I wouldn't be typing this right now.

I was born "normal"... although I was late, small, the result of a rather fast labour (resulting in my mother missing out on anaesthetic). Also my mother didn't know she was even pregnant with me until the end of her second trimester (so they only knew I was late when I actually came out with flakey skin apparantly).... So a little abnormal really, just not C/Section.

I was a Caesarean baby. I was born about 2 weeks late. My mom and I stayed in the hospital until I was 3 weeks old.

Normal birth for me (it was fast and easy). My sons were born naturally, too, attended by midwives, no drugs used. Actually I think there's only one c-section birth in my (and DH's) entire extended family of over 100 people. Aunts, grandmas, sisters, cousins, some of them had 4 to 6 children all naturally. I can't believe the stats on c-sections as we hardly know any. We have plenty of autistic people, though.

My mother had much of the same problem, Tuttle. She had problems with her "plumbing" (as she puts it) throughout her life and had a miscarriage and a subsequent partial hysterectomy before my conception. Following the partial hysterectomy which removed one ovary completely and the other one partially, the gynaecologist gave her the odds of 1 in ~3,000,000 of conceiving.

When she did become pregnant a year or two later, the attending physician doing the ultrasound thought that the fetus (me) was actually a large tumour and only realised that I was actually a fetus a few minutes later.

Following my birth, continued health problems necessitated a complete hysterectomy on my mother's part.

If I may ask, were your mother and/or father a bit older than the general "norm"? At the time of my birth, my mother was 37 years of age whereas my father was 56 years of age.