med's used during pregnancy

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My cousin just recently had a baby boy a few days ago. She breast feeds him. One of the things that was concerning her and her husband was the medications that were put into her during labor, and them being introduced into the breast milk, and thus into him. This leads to an interesting link that I think nobody has really explored yet. Typically, when this issue has been looked at, it has been looked at as to how it affected the child in the short term, but I don't believe the long-term effects have been really explored. I wonder how this relates to autism and aspergers any, or other long-term effects on health.

It use to be women were totally doped out of their minds when they gave birth. Now they push for all natural no matter how badly it hurts.....yeah right. I had medication but not the epideral, I was terrified of it, good thing no C-sections needed. I don't think there's anything to worry about. New parents worry alot. I always let my doc and also pharmacest know that I was breastfeeding anytime I needed meds. I let both know just in case one missed. And I wanted two opinions. My kids are ok. But you brought up an interesting point. Make me wonder.

Well, I don't think my mother ever breastfed me. She is self deprecating in that way. I got most of my nutrition elsewhere. I was with my father last week. My earlier memories of him, heck, of me also....

were that we were smarter. Happily, I think much of my loss is due to changes in nutrition, and I am getting better. I was asked a few times if I ever considered joining mensa. I met few I think I would like, and some I know I would hate, so I never saw the point. HECK, one of the better famous ones is ISACC ASIMOV. Isn't he a professing atheist, etc... He seems smart and all, but I don't know what he would be like to talk to. He sounds more cynical than I am. My father was even asked by a mensa member to join.

I don't know what he was like as a kid, or how his early development was.

He used to be VERY good in math, and learned a lot of things. He claims to have single handedly created the first ISAM for IBM. (I don't have a reason to doubt him, it is only that, at the time, IBM was NOTORIOUS for taking credit as a company, so there may be no public record. Employees basically signed away all rights to computer software when they were hired, and IBM patented most of it.) It is no coincidence that myISAM has ISAM in the name and is the first engine for MYSQL. ISAM is basically the basis for DBMS systems. I know he certainly used to be far better with computers. He worked on mainframes that were out LONG before Apple and M/S existed.

He is as arrogant as I sounded. I just wish I could claim a basis for it in him now.

I haven't noticed any stims from him, I also haven't noticed any sensory skewing(He may not have noticed it in me either, so I don't know how much that means.) His friends also say he has a high tolerance for pain. I haven't seen that, but who knows. He IS bad socially, demanding, and can start up old topics much later. His basic way of expressing emotions is like mine, we just show them in different ways.

The topper is that he and Bill Gates are BOTH obsessed with the same thing(I'll give you a hint, it has NOTHING to do with computers even though my father and WGIII(AKA BG) are both known for being into them), and go to the same places. The interest is SO strong that it will take him away from his favorite sports game.

I guess if Bill Gates can claim AS then my father can.

He even divorced my mother because she was bad at it, and married another because she was good at it!

My mother said I shouldn't be surprised if I found out HE had AS either. What do you think?

In any event, I think there IS a genetic component.

Steve

I was an all natural birth which was not fun for my mom ( I was a big ass baby, over 10 pounds ). She breast fed me for a good while too.

Any meds she got during labor will be out of her system quickly, and the baby would have already gotten a huge dose anyway as the meds cross the placenta. Breastfeeding is the safest way to feed a baby, this has been proven time and again through every study of it. Breastfed babies are healthier, have fewer ear infections, less chance of obesity, diabetes, and childhood leukemia, and tend to have a higher IQ once grown than non breastfed babies. Whatever you do, do NOT try to discourage her from breastfeeding, please!

I had no meds during the birth of my AS/HFA son, and he is still AS/HFA.