cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/42741188
James Walker, a professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Leeds, said the research had helped to “cut through the noise” regarding recent concerns regarding whether medications taken by mothers during pregnancy could affect their babies.
“The practical message is straightforward” Walker said. “Women with moderate or severe depression should not stop their antidepressants in pregnancy out of fear of causing autism or ADHD. Depression that goes untreated in pregnancy carries real risks of its own, for the mother, the pregnancy and for the developing baby, including a higher chance of premature birth, postnatal depression and difficulties bonding with the baby. For milder depression, talking therapies and other non-medication approaches are usually tried first, in line with current guidelines. As always, decisions in pregnancy are personal and should be made with a clinician who knows the woman’s history.”
Duh! Everyone knows it’s the vaccines that do that.
Wait, or is it 5G? I get my conspiracies mixed up sometimes…
Have we even found a single link between habits/conditions of pregnancy and ADHD/autism yet? I feel like every time I hear these stories, it’s a repeat of the last study’s findings.
I want to see a modern study on cigerette smoking.
When I was a kid (early 90s), my mom defended her decision to not stop smoking when she was pregnant with me, by quoting a study from the 1970s. They found it did not cause any ill effects.
Well around 2005 I was poking around the internet, and found that yes, that study was reported exactly how she claimed, and was performed by the Nixon administration.
It was also funded by Marlborrow. So take that study with a salt mine worth of salt.
I want a new modern independant study done. Because my mom never stopped, and I have always felt like something is wrong with me, but I’m too dumb to put it into words. I’m not calling it autism, but it feels like there’s a mental blockade preventing me from being me. I don’t know how to explain it.
I can’t access this link but I may have been part of that study as a kid! My mother smoked almost all the way through her pregnancy with me and I went through a bunch of tests over about 10 years to see if it caused my allergies. I never got to see what the study actually said about it though.
Only if you were born between 1997 and 2006!
This one is a meta study based on other studies, so I guess that’s to be expected.
Everything is a fucking meta study today, and IMO they are too often shit, because they generally try to account for variables that the original studies weren’t made for.
Ah well, it’s probably going to get worse, because now we will be overwhelmed by meta studies that are made by AI.Yes - I’ve heard that women with autism are more likely to experience pains in pregnancy and thus choose to use painkiller (e.g Tylenol or another brand of paracetamol). Autism being sometimes inherited, there is then a correlation if you study it.
This sounded weird to me, but I also have heard women who give birth at a later age are more likely to have a child with autism. Maybe older pregnant women will have more pain during pregnancy? In which case there should be a correlation between painkillers usage while pregnant, and autism rates in offspring.
People with autism also tend to be more sensitive to physical stimulus of any sort and so may more acutely experience bodily sensations.
