Wow. Hmmm...doesn't sound like an isolated case to me. Sounds like you have a common recurring theme here. You may be onto something. 

Antibiotics have been commercially available within the US since 1928.  If antibiotics were a cause why is it that only recently (about 1992) autism rates have gone up?  I suspect antibiotics have nothing to do with autism; but that's not to say that research shouldn't be done --if there is in fact a possible correlation; though I suspect otherwise.  If research is done however, I can only hope that antibiotics don't succumb to the same smear campaign vaccines have fallen into by the antivaccination crowd.  If researchers test for causation and the results are negative will you continue to suspect that antibiotics are the cause?  Unfortunately I know some who will, though I hope many will not.

@P1AutismMom - Well, before research could be done there would have to be some noticeable correlation between the two.  These types of studies do not come by cheap and if there does not appear to be any incidences --aside from a few anecdotes---nobody is going to do the research.

As for the vaccine issue... Look, the research is there; and it's there because vaccines are important to the health and well being of so many individuals.  If there was something wrong with a vaccine people want to know and are willing to fund that type of research --which they do, and thus far we've found the ones that continue to be produced are both safe and effective.

As far as why we give Hep B vaccines to children, well, according to both the CDC and the Hepatitis B Foundation anyone can get Hep B; the people you listed are just at higher risk.

I'm not sure I asked why people are "forming crowds", in any case it's well within antivaccinationists' rights to do so.  That being said, continually asserting that vaccines are a cause for autism, when the evidence shows they are not, not only puts people at risk by creating this antivaccine hysteria but also hinders real research that could be going into finding real causes for autism --in my opinion anyway.

@P1AutismMom - Not to come off as pugnacious but I suggest you ask what I'm implying before stating what it is you think I meant.  I never said that anyone who questions vaccines is out to halt their progress, so whether intentional or not that's a bit of a strawman.  Asking questions is a good thing and I would never want that to cease.  But continually claiming, for example, that vaccines cause autism is not asking a question; it is a statement, one that has been falsified by a great deal of evidence -- To clarify I'm speaking of people within the antivaccine movement and no one person in particular.

Yes I am pro-vaccine (they save lives) and have not made any illusion that I'm otherwise, so I don't feel it pertinent for you to point out "which side [I] stand on".  Nor did I make any claim that you yourself were antivaccine --please, again, don't put words in my mouth.  Yes, you should look at the risk vs. benefit when it comes to vaccinating your children, but you should also do so objectively which is often hard to do when your own children are involved.

As far as what you should do with your own children it's not my place say; ultimately it's your decision and whatever it is I hope for nothing but the best for you and yours.

Lastly, again I never claimed that pharmaceutical companies were not motivated by financial gain --quite the opposite I suspect.  But you shouldn't throw the baby out with the bath water.  Yes, they seek financial gain, but they also employ some of the greatest researchers money can buy in an effort to make a product that is not only financially successful but passes the rigors of government regulations --and I'm not just talking about US regulations, other countries as well seeing as they are distributed world wide.

  Here is one of the many articles you will find if searching is done and this is from one of the mainstream outlets which largely sweep these finding under the rug our mention it in a side not and only on rare occassion.    We really need to be skeptical of those who are trying to sell us something for profit using our health and in the case of H1N1 using fear as the ultimate weaponry.   It's just common sense. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/cbsnews_investigates/main4296175.shtml

@Strangebrain@xanga - The implications were there otherwise it would not have been necessary to use the words "smear campaign" in your first comment on this article based soley on a hypothesis that antibiotics given to pregnant women could be a suspect in autism.    You took a defensive posture right off the bat. 

@P1AutismMom - Perhaps I've been unclear, so I'll try to clarify.  People who are just asking questions, really asking questions, are doing just that, and as I said before that's a good thing, we should never stop asking questions.  But there is a point for some people when they stop asking questions and are simply making statements.  When evidence to the contrary is given they continue to make the same statements, those are the ones on a smear campaign.

From the first link:  I didn't know the L.A. Times was a reputable medical journal [tic].  Regardless,  "They point out that participants might not have recalled exactly when they took the drugs or even the correct name of those drugs. Further, the authors wrote: 'Another limitation is that it is not possible to determine whether the birth defect is associated with the antibacterials used or the underlying infection'."  As a relevant aside, the medical language rarely allows for anything to be definitively said.

From the second link:  Yes there are some antibiotics that are unsafe for pregnant women and doctors (good doctors) don't prescribe them.

Women should be informed when it comes to antibiotics and pregnancy.  My advice, talk to a doctor!