Prenatal Care Improves Health of Mother, Baby

“Given what we are learning about immune and metabolic problems in [autism], it is not surprising that the mother’s condition could affect the infant,” says Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, in an email. She is a pediatric neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and the author of The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be. “This is not only a public health problem, but raises the possibility that more aggressive lifestyle modification could reduce the risk for having [children with] autism or developmental delay in this group of mothers.

From “Mom’s Health While Pregnant Linked to Autism Risk”