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Asd or Fasd

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Xmeggyx · 29/04/2025 16:42

Hi there, looking for some support of other mothers in a similar situation I fell pregnant with dd at 19 I found out at 8 weeks and had one night of binge drinking around 4.4 days pregnant I didn’t think anything of this at the time I thought it took multiple occasions of drinking to cause problems so I didn’t think much of it

fast foward to now she’s 10 years old has speech delay and was getting help at speech therapy the speech theorisps mentiond about autism and said my daughter was displaying some signs so I agreed to get her tested
i completey forgot about the drinking in early pregnancy until she was diagnosed with autism and was looking up on things and came across Fasd I’m so sad and full of guilt could it be this I keep looking at her face and I can’t tell if she has the facial features but I know not all people have the facial features I dono what to do about this situation I’m heartbroken before anything came up about autism I had another unplanned pregnancy and was drinking at conception now I’m terrified he will have problems I feel so suicidle every day is so hard can someone help me throught this

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BunnyRuddington · 02/05/2025 07:44

Drinking on one night will not have caused ASD. Lots of babies are conceived when their DM has been drinking and not all PGs are planned, so lots of DMs will have drunk alcohol in the early weeks.

ASD is “significantly hereditary”. So it’s likely that you or DD’s DF will have ASD or maybe other close relatives.

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