Even a week early can make a difference ?

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breakingnews.heraldscotland.com/breaking-news/?mode=article&site=hs&id=N0028341276053357878A

though presumably choosing an earlier date of delivery (not sure how common that really is) is very different to early natural delivery . DS1 was 3 weeks early, not by choice . I've always wondered if there was a link to the autism but I suppose I will never really know

All 3 of mine were induced with prostin pessaries. Only one spontaneous rupture of membranes, two artificial. None used syntocin drips:

DD1 - Born at 40+0 - brain malformation dx at 3.5

DD2 - Born at 35+2 - NT as far as I know

DD3 - Born at 38+6 - NT as far as i know

There is an article today on BBC news from Nature journal (sorry, don't know how to do that link thing, but just google autism, BBC and DNA). They have found loads more genetic links - up to 300 - which would explain why every single autistic child is so different, as they could each have a totally different combination of all the different genes implicated. Previously they'd implicated only 9 genes. Maybe this thing we call autism is really not one condition at all, but as soon as there is speech delay or social difficulties, we lump it under the title autism?

Look at this which gives the facts of the report and not the newspapers interpretation.

www.nhs.uk/news/2010/06June/Pages/Early-babies-and-special-needs.aspx

I ts a slightly different picture.