I’m autistic and currently 11 weeks thank you for sharing this. I’m also a Christian so this is so encouraging for me and good cause my planing and wanting a specific environment.

Thank you so much for doing this! I am an autistic woman who is trying to concieve with my husband. It's so hard finding videos on autistic experiences while pregnant.

This is lovely. Not with child currently, but have really connected with late in life diagnosis of Autism. Diagnosis are quite hard and expensive to get, so all my info has come from researching other adults experiences. Thank you for taking the time to share about your life. So special, and helpful!

Thank you for posting this video! I've been trying to research how pregnancy feels for others with Autism and with little results.

I really want to get pregnant but I’m so scared of the body changes 🙈

Would you say that tendency to research everything to death is pretty common in autism? I'm the same way. I always say I'm a "researcher by nature." I get special interests all the time that I obsess about. Aside from morning sickness and headaches after that, pregnancy was amazing for me too! I had never felt so balanced mentally as I did when I was pregnant! Thanks for sharing your experience!

Thank you for this I am autistic newly discovered/diagnosed, I had a twin pregnancy first than I had a single baby again before I was known as me being autistic. I wish I knew to look for this before . If I get pregnant again this makes all the difference for me.

I'm autistic and pregnant and needed this. I looked up autism and pregnancy and your video was the first to come up! Thank you for your information!

Thank you so much for this video. I’m autistic and my husband and I finally decided to start trying after being together a full decade. I am very anxious and excited and consuming MASSIVE amounts of information to cope but there’s a shockingly severe lack of information about being autistic and pregnant. All I see on Google is things about doing things in order to not have an autistic child. Which is upsetting to not feel prepared (and puzzling because it feels like they’re talking in way that’s akin to saying, “how to not have a werewolf child” 😂). So to find actual autistic women telling their experiences and saying, “yeah, you researching and wanting a baby book immediately is normal. Also I kept a small human alive for 11 years,” gives me peace of mind that I can do it too, and that I am autistically normal. ❤

Lol I swallowed REALLY hard when you said six years ago was a long time since childbirth 🙃. My youngest daughter is 21! My son is 23 and he has a seven month old daughter 😃😂😅😍!! I’m a pregnant grandmother 😂🥰. But this is the biggest miracle I could ever hope for. I did not have a good caregiver and I was sold into human trafficking it has been such a long long road to health and safety, but I am safe and healthy and I have been for 11 years. My husband and I wanted a baby so bad and she is coming 😍🥰😍. It’s just such a different experience I have these beautiful doctors that respect me and care about me, I have a husband that loves me and protects me, I have children that are my everything 🥲 it’s just so crazy how life can change. My attitude is GRATITUDE 🙏🏼. Thank you for sharing your experience 🥰it’s nice to hear how other autistic moms get through the milestones 🥰

❤❤❤❤❤ Thank you, Purple Ella❤❤❤❤ My birth weight was 1lbs 11oz…yet 39 years later I was a preemie adult and try to enjoy life to the fullest❤❤❤❤ Thank you for this video❤❤❤❤❤

This video/story is very encouraging. Thanks, Purple Ella! :)

I've been thinking about this lately! Thanks for treating this! Looking forward to the birth video

Before my pregancy my weight was 60 kilo.and 1 week after giving birth my weight was 53 kilo. To give you an idea. I couldnt eat nor drink water and lived on tiny pieces of old cheese. I had no idea what was happening to me (it was pre my ASD diagnose) Giving birth was very traumatic too. Your video was a real eye-opener, glad it went well. Cheers

I was so pleased to find this! We are expecting our first next May and I’ve just started vlogging my own experience as a pregnant woman on the spectrum. I can relate with everything you have shared, especially the research part! Thanks so much for your view on birth plans. I have been trying to keep a similar outlook. To have preferences, but keep in mind something else may need to happen. I am taking some courses for relaxation during pregnancy and birth that I hope will help me cope with any unexpected situations that come up. I’ve subscribed and am looking forward to watching more of your videos!

Thank you so much!!! I'm having kids one day and this video really helped a while lot. God Bless you!!

Fantastic, so glad I found your video.

Thanks for that video! I already researched a little bit about DID & pregnancy. At the moment we’re short time before IVF. And I’m praying to universe that it works and I get pregnant. Call me crazy but I talk to “unborn souls” and promise that I will do my best for that baby. I can dress 2 babies with the clothes I bought till now. I have clothes for the baby till it might get 906-9 months. We’ve a biiiiig list of what we need for our baby. We have nappies, oils, shower creams, shampoos and other things. We hav a wardrobe, a baby’s changing unit, a prom that can be used from 1st day till a buggy is needed. We have things to play with, 2 jogging pants-like pregnancy trousers, 2 Pullovers for pregnancy and breastfeed, a 🧣 for breastfeeding and a pillow for it. Today we ordered the baby’s bed that is up to 1,40 meter, so it’ll last through childhood, and a traveling bed with a baby’s changing unit on it. We have a blanket for crawling, anti-colic %0-bottles, several binkies and a Birkholz’ box, two things with wiphich you can attach the inky to baby’s clothes, boxes where we can store milk powder when we’re on our way outside, an damp Sterilisation for bottles and binkies, a desk that can grow with the child when it’s older (we take it from a friend who doesn’t need it anymore), toys to improve motoric abilities. I will prepare some cards if I get nonverbal, etc.I’ve only one book, but it describes everything that happens during pregnancy and the first year, a book where we can put photos of every month in and write something about mummy and baby. We got a frame where we can put pictures of baby’s first year in etc. I’ll better stop now. Please keep fingers crossed that I’ll get pregnant and give birth to a child.

I resonate so much with the way you was pregnant.

Great video, Ella. It's wonderful to have a story like yours - and where does time go? You are a super mum. :D

Pregnancy hormones were wonderful for me too! I especially liked not experiencing symptoms of IBS during pregnancy. I was generally more relaxed (until the last month) and present.

that's so relatable, i became obsessed about maternity and natural child birth. before i was pregnant. i studied to the point i became myself a doula. when i got eventually pregnant, i read even more books.and did more research. i started an youtube channel about maternity and childbirth, but it was not a mommy vlog, it was information based. i started giving courses to other parents to be on everything they should know beforhand. I then had a blog about child development. i dont know if i'm autistic, but i'm in the middle of my assessment to discover it. i can relate so much with yours and samdy's vídeos, tks for sharing.

I also have three kids. Mine are all teens now. 18, 16, 14 (almost) I haven’t watched all your videos yet. Did you get diagnosed as an adult or did you know before having kids? I haven’t been formally diagnosed yet. This is still pretty new to me.

I researched everything and still years later has been doing crazy research it became one of my special interest before I knew it was a special interest

Thanks for sharing!

Well done! It is an interesting topic.

Thanks for thuis video! In the Netherlands we've collected tips/advice around getting and being pregnant when you're autistic. Do you have any tips which organisation would like to have this en get it translated? Sorry for my English, its been a while since i used it.

Hope for me. Minus the pregnancy scares. I actually been trying since I was 21

I have autism but for my autism is worse than Purple Ella so it worries me that I won’t be pregnant so I need a husband but it’s hard to get a husband with autism.

I loved this video💕💖💗💟

Can you still git pregnant if you take Austin medical i been trying for almost 4 year's now i just find out I'm Austsm today

I had to be induced too, bc his water was low too. I ended up having a section bc of pre eclampsia, but all did go well.

Hello ! i have autism and i am pregnant once i read that in some autistic people that oxytocin levels can be low and we need it to produce milk, to breast feeding the baby. you have 3 children, have you had problems with that? it can be challenging for most of mothers. i didnt find a vídeo about that in your channel.

How did you deal with your low pain tolerance?

Ella since you have 3 children are any of your children in the a.s.d like you are or not?

I think I might be autistic but I am too scared to ask for a diagnosis because I don't want to have people treat me differently for better or worse but I have a lot of symptoms and I'm pregnant so I am doing research on everything I can get

I was extremely sick I had hypothesis that was disabling I stugged with the whole lot

Lol SAME!!! I am just laying around gestating 😂😍😍🌈❤️ I’m so careful of anything going badly that I am like a pile of fluff 😂🥰

OMG Thank you I have autism and Ive been talking to my bf and we planed out when we want children but I´ve been afraid if my baby will have my genes cause I want to help it in anyway that I can, so that I can give it a safe and great childhood

Wow...............

I and to be induced with my first bcoz I run out of fluid

My girlfriend might be pregnant, and we're both on the spectrum. I've been getting hints that it's going to be a girl😁

Hello

And ruby came I her own time but I didn't understand I was in labour till the next morning lol 😂

You mention that you are a Christian, would you ever consider doing a faith/autism video if its not too personal? I have recently come to know Jesus and I'm also on the waiting list for an adult Autism assessment and the timing between these two things feels very curious

I'm a man with autism and and I have a wife with Cerebral palsy and we do want a child through natural conception if we can. But my biggest concern is our ages. She's 39 and I'm 32. Will our child be born safely and will she or he have any chromosomal problems. I have emotional support from my wife, and friends. But my parents dont think its possible. Especially on a teacher's aide salary. Please let me know your thoughts. We do want a family someday?

It's scary when you have to let others take over yes