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... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with.

After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie.

Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well.

This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives.

But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

... or ADHD, or food allergies, or anxiety disorders, or homosexuality, or any of other crap our children are plagued with. After seven months on pregnancy forums, I’ve determined this is a big fat lie. Women today are taking all kinds of shit during pregnancy. Heartburn meds, extra vaccinations, popping Tylenol like it’s candy, high dose progesterone supplements. Oh, and that doesn’t include all the drugs that are taken these days to just get pregnant, like the massive amounts of hormones you use during IVF or IUI treatments, or Clomid to increase ovulation. Drinking during pregnancy is becoming more acceptable (because one bitch wrote a book), and apparently smoking weed your entire pregnancy is no big deal either. Most psychiatric drugs are cleared for use during pregnancy as well. This is on top of all the birth control, drinking, bad eating habits, obesity, and anxiety meds women are on for most of their lives. But no, nothing in the modern world causes autism. You constantly freaking out about your mother in law’s innocent bullshit, or your high stress job, or your advanced maternal age, won’t affect your baby at all. Nothing causes problems!

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Did they explain why they prescribed progesterone? I've never heard of this.

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Low progesterone levels are linked to an inability to conceive and early miscarriage. But there’s a question about what the causality is; do low P levels cause miscarriage, or is miscarriage merely indicated by low P? You also have to take massive doses of it if you’re doing fertility treatments.

Anyway, a LOT of women supplement with it these days, even if they don’t need to. My doc wanted me on it because I’d had two previous miscarriages. But my progesterone levels were normal at the time I conceived. Go figure.

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I guess you could say: it's better to progest on yer own.

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Huuurrrrrrrr

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Hahahahaha absolute dorky pun jokes. Good one

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They might prescribe it in the very early stages of pregnancy, if your progesterone drops it signals your body to start your menstrual cycle. So if you have a threatened miscarriage... If you start bleeding due to very low progesterone levels, you may be prescribed progesterone as well.