Will they take away my baby?? Urgent help needed :(

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I have had help with MH matters in the past. PND, mild depression which I have had medication for for several years, and I have tried to commit suicide before. I also have been diagnosed with Aspergers.

I to,d my midwife recently that I felt my depression was returning a but worse than before, and I asked about getting help. But someone told me today that now my baby will be taken away from me. I'm now terrified to go to the Dr or midwife again, and don't even want to answer the door.

Can they take my baby away? If so, why? I can't stop crying.

I have suffered from mental health issues during pregnancy. Had PN depression and severe anxiety. So I understand how hard it can be, I've always been honest and asked for help it I need it as that's better than letting things spiral out of control.

No one ever said they would take my baby. If there are any worries from the hospital they will tell you. X

"Just5minswithDacre

Autism is perfectly 'normal' (if not NT)"

If I could gently challenge that, Autism is not 'perfectly normal'. I know there is a body of people who are moving to have it regarded as a variation of 'normal', and those people would say that the only negative effect of Autism comes from the societal barriers that prevent people with Autism living life without constraint, but currently Autism is a medically defined condition. As a medically defined condition, people with Autism meet diagnostic criteria. Autism also fulfils the legal criteria for disability.

Whilst I think it can be liberating for somebody who has embraced their Autism and has carved a lifestyle that is not hampered by their Autism diagnosis to view their Autism as 'normal', much in the same way that someone who is deaf but is happily established in the deaf community and has no desire to function as a hearing person would, I don't think it's helpful to suggest to someone who is struggling because of their Autism that their Autism is 'normal'.

Autism is a single word that describes a massive array of presentations of a condition. Some people will be able to overcome the difficulties it brings, or at least mask them in public, others won't.

If I could gently challenge that, Autism is not 'perfectly normal'. I know there is a body of people who are moving to have it regarded as a variation of 'normal', and those people would say that the only negative effect of Autism comes from the societal barriers that prevent people with Autism living life without constraint, but currently Autism is a medically defined condition. As a medically defined condition, people with Autism meet diagnostic criteria. Autism also fulfils the legal criteria for disability

Nevertheless, it's quite normal to have autism and perfectly possible to live 'normally'. It isn't necessary to feel 'lesser' or deficient or stigmatised.

The social model of disability is extremely applicable to higher functioning autism and the fact that there are diagnostic criteria is a function of the fact that people-without-autism are in the majority (medical model). You're not really 'challenging' anything lougle; you're just reasserting the medical model.

OP do google 'medical and social models of disability'. Many people with various conditions have found it very empowering.

Some great advice here. I'm a 'professional' in this arena too. I can guarantee that as long as you are open and engage with any services or referrals that are made you will be fine. You may need to accept a little bit of SS involvement but it's important you are that as a positive thing rather than a negative. Removing a child is a last resort and often we can't even get it to happen when we WANT to do we certainly have no interest in removing children from mothers like yourself. X