Preventing Autism: What You Can Do to Protect Your Children Before and After Birth

by Jay Gordon

Contents

Preface

Introduction You Can Reduce the Risk of Autism

Part One: The New View Of Autism

Chapter 1 The Autism Epidemic

Chapter 2 The Changing View of Autism

Chapter 3 No Two Children with Autism Are Alike

Chapter 4 The Autistic Brain

Chapter 5 The Genetic Factor

Chapter 6 Genetics Loads the Gun, the Environment Pulls the Trigger

Part Two: Protect Your Baby Before Birth

Chapter 7 Risk Awareness

Chapter 8 Get Started the Minute You Think about Having a Baby

Chapter 9 What to Do When You Are Expecting

Chapter 10 Home Detox

Chapter 11 A Wardrobe Not to Die For

Chapter 12 Beauty Does Not Have to Hurt

Chapter 13 Planning a Nursery That Is a Healthy Nest

Part Three: Protect Your New Born

Chapter 14 Feeding Your Newborn

Chapter 15 Your Baby Is Changing Everyday

Chapter 16 Vaccines--The Middle Ground

Afterword Better Living without Chemicals

References

ResourcesAppendix Milestone Tracker

Genres: Parenting

320 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 2013

About the author

In the middle of his residency training, pediatrician Jay Gordon took an unusual step. Deciding that he needed greater knowledge about nutrition, vitamins, and alternative medicine in order to practice medicine the way he wanted to, Dr. Gordon took a Senior Fellowship in Pediatric Nutrition at Sloan-Kettering Institute in New York City. After his residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Dr. Gordon joined the teaching attending faculty at UCLA Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Intensely interested in infant nutrition and breastfeeding, Dr. Gordon is the first male physician to sit for and pass the International Board of Lactation Certification Exam. He has served on the Professional Advisory Board of La Leche League for twenty years. Dr. Gordon treats patients at Santa Monica, California. In addition, he finds time to participate in the training of medical students and residents, lecture all over the world, write books, and contribute to AOL with the Ask The Pediatrician weekly chat. He writes a monthly column for "Fit Pregnancy" magazine and has recently contributed to "New York Parent," "Parenting" magazine and has been quoted in the L.A. Times, New York Times, London Times . . . and many other times.

Busy as he is, Dr. Gordon finds that his most challenging job is "being a good husband and the best possible parent to my 16-year-old daughter."

Reviews

[Liza · Rating 1 out of 5]

The only ways of completly preventing autism are eugenics, abstinence, and filicide. Don't want kids like us? Don't have sex 🥰

[Erin Lillemo · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author is very informative and approaches autism as a multi-factorial disorder. Since the cause of autism is still unknown it makes sense to approach it considering all aspects of personal health and the environment. That being said, unless you are willing to rip out the carpet in your house and throw out your hand soap, this may not be the read for you. The author takes this to the extreme. He points out everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, in your lifestyle that contains toxic chemicals but fails to mention the amount needed in a product to actually cause harm to the human body.
He also uses a lot of "you" statements. "YOU need to do this" or "why would YOU knowingly harm YOUR baby?"
To me, this can be perceived as aggressive to the reader and potentially turn them off. Although one can gain mass amounts of information on how to live a healthier lifestyle, the author could tone it down a bit and be more realistic.

[Anne Evans · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very Good book. It is a stab in the right direction. The author/physician makes the same mistake that all physicians make concerning this disorder. He is speaking mostly to pregnant women. The truth is, the toxicity begins in childhood in a little girl. She grows toxic as she grows up. That toxicity in passed on to the unborn infant. This book should be addressed to mothers as they are raising their daughters.

[Kate]

Curious to see what he says