A friend of mine mentioned that ever since Daylight Savings Time kicked in she hasn't felt quite right. For her daylight savings has always been an indicator of longer days and warmer weather and because now daylight savings time comes a few weeks early things have felt out of wack. There's also this nasty cold going around the San Francisco Bay area that's a little off for this time... related?
CNN is really having a field day with articles on Autism. I don't know if it's national Autism week or what. There's an article Study: Extreme preemies face autism risk that says:
"That suggests autism may be an under-appreciated consequence of medical advances enabling the tiniest of premature babies to survive, said lead author Catherine Limperopoulos, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal and Children's Hospital in Boston."
Another article points to the vaccines that kids get. Everyone is looking for "what's off" for these kids and one has to imagine that the advances in technology play a part somewhere along the way. If we can be thrown off course by a 1 hour time difference coming two weeks early, what can throw a baby off course?
Will there be shifts in standard practice for raising children in an effort to avoid things like autism and will there be negative consequences because of those shifts?
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