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Before you vote: please vote multiple times so you can enter birth months for ME relatives or friends. After you vote, I don't think you can add more votes.
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Is it possible to add an additional 12 entries into the above poll, by duplicating all the 12 months again, but for use with people living in the southern hemisphere? You could label these 12 new entries:
• January (Southern Hemisphere)
• February (Southern Hemisphere)
etc
Or set up a new poll just for those in the southern hemisphere.
Lack of vitamin D in pregnancy has not only been linked to multiple sclerosis, but also to autism and schizophrenia, so clearly this is an important factor in neurological disorders. Autism births occur most often in March, at the end of winter, when vitamin D levels would be lowest.
Here is a good article on autism's link to low vitamin D in pregnancy: Autism and Vitamin D