Autism Before Birth

[Guest guest]

Dear Janelle:

I´ve always heard about reggressions,too. But my son was weird since very

very young, although I can´t tell exactly since when.

I can remeber when he was only 2 months old, his Pediatrician make a bell

sound very close to one of his ears, expecting he will turn his little head,

but nothing.

We though he was deaf; and we kept waiting for him to turn around at home

and nothing again. So I knew ther was something wrong. He has never had

language, as I hear other people saying their sons were normal, talking

until 18 months. I don´t know ,I received a vaccine while I was pregnant,

the Gammaglobulin, because I am O rh Negative Factor and my husnband is O rh

Positive.Maybe that was the cause; my pregnancy was terible, I almost lost

him at 2 months, bleedings, a lot of nausea, excessive saliva producing,

faintings, vomiting, I lost 20 pounds the first trimester; I had a C sectiom

because there was a membraine rupture. There are a lot of possible causes as

you said. And you´re right; no matter what we must focus in how to cure

them; yes cure them, because I´m sure one of these days they will discover

the cure. We must keep praying for that to happen and in the meantime let´s

keep working as we are with our kids.

Carmen.

[Guest guest]

Carmen,

Don't know if you know but <<excessive saliva producing>> is a sign

of mercury toxicity. Having had the Gammaglobulin and these symptoms

I would suspect you may have been mercury toxic. Do you also have

amalgam fillings? I do and suspect that my son had high levels of

mercury even from birth because of them. His hep b shots added a very

toxic amount at a very vulnerable point also. After his hep b shots

he began to drool excessively..like water pouring out of his mouth.

This was at 3 months and he did not cut a single tooth until after 12

months.

What you said about the saliva just stuck out to me. There are many

contributing factors...many before birth.

Dawn

[Guest guest]

Dawn,

On the topic of saliva, which is really interesting BTW as I had that

with Jane, but do you or anyone know if drooling in an ASD child

" means anything " ? Jane's SI therapist, speech path, and I notice her

left side is slightly weaker( ex. she can't stick out her tongue on

the left side) and this is the side she continues to drool from(at 33

mos). I assume it's just a muscle thing, what do you think? Also, do

any of you have apraxia in your ASD children? I am convinced she has

this and feel like a neurotic mom bc nobody will address this, except

for the dev. spec. who dx her and said he felt she had it. Email me

personally if you want (as I have been asking many OT questions) and

let me know how you knew, who you found to help, etc...

Janelle