Re: how might a child with autism handle a new baby in the family?

November 30, 2010

Surprisingly well in my case.We started chelating and its fun to see both my

kids learning language.

My son at first showed no interest in babies.........he is still not very fond

of them,but loves his sister

Just want to add.................your son is only 9.He has not reached puberty

yet and has lots of time to improve more.............................try ac

protocol.its a miracle

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From: mjmjlucas <mjmjlucas@...>

Sent: Wed, November 24, 2010 6:05:40 PM

Subject: [ ] how might a child with autism handle a new baby in the

family?

We have a 9yr. old son with autism and a 14yr. old son without autism. We are

considering having another child but we are so worried about how it will affect

our 9yr. old. Has anyone had experience with this in their own family? Besides

our wanting a third child, we thought it might be nice for our 9yr. old to have

a younger sibling, since his brother will probably move out and go to college in

a few years. Our concern is that he would hate a new baby and regress. He has

had biomedical treatment/diet with a DAN for 3 years and although he has

improved, it does not seem like he is going to fully recover. We do not want to

have another child if it will reverse what progress he has made. Advise from

anyone who had another baby born after their child with autism?

November 30, 2010

My son whom is " asd " (never pushed for a diagnosis since we are doing biomed and

seeing results) didn't show any interest during my pregnancy(he just turned a

year when I got prego) or for the first 6 months of life of the 2nd child. Then

biomed changed that all. Slowly he's turned around. He's protective of his

brother(1.5y.o), makes sure his brother is with us when we are leaving. Makes

sure his brother is following directions. Gives him hugs and kisses. Now calls

his name, or says brother. We do give our now 3.5 y.o asd special time so it

isn't forgotten he is our first child, and that he is just as special as his

baby brother. We have had issues with pushing his brother due to the sensory

issues. But we finally controlled that by time out in the corner, min. For every

year of his age, and even use a timer. Then when he's calmed down and his timers

gone off we sit down with him and have a talk about how his brother is a baby

and he can't do that. I try to treat our asd child the exact same as I would

any other child. We are lucky our asd issues don't really effect day to day

living that much.

I do wish we waited 6 months before trying so there was a 2.5 year gap so we

could focus on the asd child a lil more. Other than that I wouldn't change a

thing! Having younger child after a asd child is a blessing in so many ways.

Our youngest is learning so much since I'm a better teacher & parent thanks to

everything I learned during early intervention.

Which ever you decide, I am sure things will work out.

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