ASD/ADHD and difficult birth/labour connection?

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Is there any connection with this? Thoughts?

Thanks

Easy uncomplicated births here too. Three kids with ASD

My first was 7 weeks premature due to me having severe pre eclampsia, apart from my body shutting down he had no amniotic fluid, failing placenta, reversed cord flow and severe iugr but was surprisingly very happy and not distressed. He was born via emsc and too one look at the surgeon and let out a healthy cry before being taken to the nicu. Apart from some feeding issues causing Brady cardia episodes and minor hereditary musculoskeletal issues he's perfectly healthy now but is showing clear signs of ADHD and Autism from being 1 year old (5 now)
Ds2 was born 4 weeks early via elcs due to lack of growth but was ill from birth and needed surgery at 3 weeks old to fix pyloric stenosis as he was dying at that point. He is showing no signs of anything being wrong, is meeting all his milestones and is just the opposite of his big brother

9 days early, calm water birth. Low temperature but no major problems.

DS3 was born at 35+5 due to an infection leading to a placental abruption. I had been unwell for a few days running up to it. He has ASD & dyslexia.

I lean towards it being a combination of genetics and birth related issues.

My ADHD ds had a traumatic birth - he had a knot in the cord, so blood flow to him was stopping every time I had a contraction. As soon as midwife realised what was happening I had a general anaesthetic c-sec. I often wonder if his behaviour is related to that.

Yes my daughter needed reviving due to low oxygen in an induced birth and has ADHD. I've read there's a link.

I am just assuming that he did experience mild oxygen deprivation hypoxia I think it's called.. as they rushed him off to be resuscitated in the living from my bedroom - but when she got to the corridor he let out a massive scream and pretty much didn't stop..

Please speak to someone about this. If you newborn suffered hypoxia you really should have been told.

@Eltonsglasses I feel the midwives could have easily covered this up - they left me pushing too long. I didn't know they - my actual midwife wasn't available when I was giving birth. I tried asking for a chat with the 2 midwives who helped me deliver and one of them had left and I felt the other was avoiding me as was booked on holiday etc.,

They know exactly what went on that night and unfortunately me and my husband are not experts and have no idea it's only suspected.

How on earth would I even go about getting any answers to my questions?

As gently as possibly it is unlikely that your baby suffered from hypoxia which was then covered up by midwives.

My first labour was a back to back labour, I was very stressed& it ended in ventouse. That baby now has diagnosis diagnosis of ADHD and he also has ASD traits. Baby 2 was a dream birth (almost enjoyed it) and he is autistic. The genes are strong in my family - on reflection I'm not sure anyone in the family is neurotypical but the births have been variable.

Interesting that you mention reflux. I said earlier I had no after effects from my own birth (awful crash section) but actually I’ve had life long severe reflux!

Could you get the notes from your child’s birth?

The department at the hospital lost my maternity notes and gave them to someone else when I was pregnant I complained as felt highly anxious - I was awarded £100 cheque and this sounds crazy but midwives are human and can take a disliking to other women.. I feel I was disliked after complaining.

Difficult birth and asd for my dd, but feel there is probably a whole mix of things which are factors in how asd presents in any individual. Genetics particularly, we often say our dd has traits that my dh and I or her grandparents have, she just has all of them at once. Hard to know cause and effect of things like birth, sleep in early life, gut health etc, but ultimately we can't go back and change those things anyway so just have to move forward with where we are now.

Not for me. DD1 is autistic and I had a wonderful birth experience. 18 hours total with 12 at home using TENS then into the pool at the midwife unit. No real pain just an incredible pressure. About 10 minutes after she was born, I said to DH, "I HAVE to do this again!"

I needed gas and air with DD2 for pain although it was a lot faster.

I think there is a lot to unpick OP and you need to seek some help to do it. I honestly don't know what the procedure would be but I'm sure there is some way you can find out.