Comments on: What Did You Do When You Were Expecting?

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:19:09 +0000

What do you due .when exp, IF it was me I would run out and get a filter that may remove the lead and arsenic from my water supply that I use for drinking or cooking

By: donald savitz

donald savitz — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:16:36 +0000

I all ready have writen some thing on this subject be for about enviroment and what happens in the womb due to the fluoride un the water[lead and arsenic both heavy metals]. It is nce to see that they are going to take look at the enviroment, but they will look to far out in space for an answer. The other posting is on Nov 30 2006 under A blood test for Autism or comm 496153.

By: Regan

Regan — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:36:36 +0000

I think it’s worthwhile to do large scale studies of prenatal exposures and experiences, to see if there are common variables that stand out for further study, and potentially increase understanding of familial and environmental risk. Epigenetics suggests that environmental matters are relevant to consider.

I followed the directions based on current at-the-time practices of good prenatal care. I suspect most women do. Potential future finger pointing about yet-unknown or discovered after-the-fact “should have done”s would not make me feel guilty. That requires a level of precognition that I feel is unrealistic.

As far as the pregnancy weight gain and the obese child study, the authors themselves seem to state that there are potentially alternative contributing pathways for child obesity, of which the intrauterine environment during pregnancy is one possible explanation, and that environmental factors remains an active research area.

By: Marla

Marla — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:46:22 +0000

And even if you did not give birth to your child people will come up with things to say. Choices that you must have made as a mother to cause your child’s Autism or even a chromosome disorder. Sigh.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:06:52 +0000

Yep. I was digging into the dark recesses of my mental files for that one, but that’s it.

By: Kristina Chew, PhD

Kristina Chew, PhD — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:02:01 +0000

Is it this?

The Dutch famine and its long-term consequences for adult health

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:55:46 +0000

That “fat mother-fat toddler” finding is odd based on what researchers have previously found. There was a study done on children of Dutch women who had been pregnant and starved during the famine induced by WWII (if I’m remembering all of this correctly; the Dutch Famine Study? Something like that…). Their offspring were more likely to be overweight and have related health problems, something about a mechanism of in utero-induced energy conservation because of the low-nutrient input, so they were more likely to conserve and store calories as a result. Children born to women who weren’t starved during pregnancy did not have this problem of hyperconservation. And the problems of these children of the starved mothers carried on into the next generation; the epigenetic regulation engendered by the starvation experience continued into the grandchild generation.