Can stress during pregnancy cause autism?

Question

I'm 3 months pregnant and worried if I have done harm by stress/anxiety. I just started therapy today for anxiety. My husband hasn't been loving or supportive the entire pregnancy and I have been doing all of the chores plus caring for my 9 year old son going on 3-5 hours of sleep a night. I haven't been able to sleep well since I became pregnant but I made a decision with my therapist that I would stay positive for my son and the baby.

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So they actually don’t have One answer for this. 
But I have done heaps of research and it is definitely one thing that was found between a number of women who had autistic children. 
I also speak for myself, and three of my friends when I say we all have autistic children and were in very abusive relationships where stress was very very very bad. 
So I do suspect it. As do they. But we aren’t sure. 
There are other possible factors too which I won’t get in to

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I’ve never heard that but stress during pregnancy isn’t good for many reasons.

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No one really knows what causes Autism

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You're doing all the right things. They will work with you lowering that stress level. Not sure if there is much proof on your stress level & rates of autism. I'll be giving probiotics to my little love as soon as she is born for healthy gut/immune support (read studies on diet more than stress w/ known autism cases). Also worked w/ special needs & diet is a huge factor early on for mental development vs. decline.

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I have never heard of stress causing autism, but they aren’t really sure what does.  So it could be possible.  I went through extreme stress and loss with my first pregnancy, and he doesn’t have any sign of autism as of now.

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Do your best not to be stressed. But even if it is a contributing factor, I is not make it break with autism. I know a family where the mother had fraternal twins that are adults now. One son is perfectly normal. The other has severe nonverbal autism. Whatever caused his autism didn’t make his brother have it.

Can stress during pregnancy cause autism?

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