Comment by WarOnPrivacy
2 days ago
My First and Fifth are autistic. All births were full term.
1st 8lb. 2nd 8lb, 3rd 10.5lb, 4th and 5th 6.5lb ea (twins). None were c-section.
First 3 were home or birth center, last had to be hospital. My wife had good BMI for the start of each pregnancy.
I do not really understand what conclusion to draw from this.
A friend of mine has 8 childen and none are autistic. All were born at the hospital (this is where you give birth in France), all were notmal weight and so was the mom (and dad)
I believe the conclusion is things like birth weight and mom's bmi aren't primary drivers of autism.
What led to increased diagnosis of autism was evaluating more kids who had autism.