Is Autism linked to Birth Trauma?

Our ASCs are genetic.  I don't believe there was birth trauma when I was born (at least nothing was ever told to me and I am sure it would have been, my mum said her last baby - my younger sister - was the most difficult birth).  Both my girls are on the spectrum and although the first was born with an epidural and a ventouse, she was not oxygen starved (although showing signs of tiredness during the labour she did not pass meconium or anything) and my other daughter, who is further down the spectrum was a normal home birth with gas and air.  Both babies were born exactly on their due dates.  My eldest did go blue at 2 days old when we were leaving the hospital and she choked on the fluid they hadn't cleared from her airways but as we were in the carpark outside A&E she got instant attention.  And like I say, she is less far on the spectrum than her sister who didn't suffer anything like that.

I even took my eldest to cranial osteopathy at the recommendation of the HV as she was such a miserable baby, and she suggested that the ventouse may have affected her, but it made not a blind bit of difference.

There may be some people whose birth trauma and oxygen starvation contributed to their ASC but not in our case.  I also wonder, whether it's the other way round: autistic babies are more likely to suffer birth trauma because they are autistic and this affects the birth.  Don't forget, the birth starts because of something perhaps hormonal produced by the baby that is ready to be born, so perhaps in an autistic baby this system is awry and means premature birth, or other birth complications.

Our ASCs are genetic.  I don't believe there was birth trauma when I was born (at least nothing was ever told to me and I am sure it would have been, my mum said her last baby - my younger sister - was the most difficult birth).  Both my girls are on the spectrum and although the first was born with an epidural and a ventouse, she was not oxygen starved (although showing signs of tiredness during the labour she did not pass meconium or anything) and my other daughter, who is further down the spectrum was a normal home birth with gas and air.  Both babies were born exactly on their due dates.  My eldest did go blue at 2 days old when we were leaving the hospital and she choked on the fluid they hadn't cleared from her airways but as we were in the carpark outside A&E she got instant attention.  And like I say, she is less far on the spectrum than her sister who didn't suffer anything like that.

I even took my eldest to cranial osteopathy at the recommendation of the HV as she was such a miserable baby, and she suggested that the ventouse may have affected her, but it made not a blind bit of difference.

There may be some people whose birth trauma and oxygen starvation contributed to their ASC but not in our case.  I also wonder, whether it's the other way round: autistic babies are more likely to suffer birth trauma because they are autistic and this affects the birth.  Don't forget, the birth starts because of something perhaps hormonal produced by the baby that is ready to be born, so perhaps in an autistic baby this system is awry and means premature birth, or other birth complications.