ABEs Webinar with Slides: Can Early Life Events Affect Health? (APPPAH)

I presented this 1 hour ABEs Webinar with slides to the Association for Pre and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH), with updates to the 10 categories of adverse babyhood experiences (ABEs) I’ve identified that influence health. In my talk I:

• share 2 themes that may be common factors among early risk factors
• introduce our type 1 diabetes research study (see the survey here).

This ABEs webinar includes:

• important research not yet well known in medicine or medical training
• initial results from the ABEs survey on this blog
• indicators to look for in babies, children and mothers that provide potential opportunities for prevention and repair of chronic health conditions with an emphasis on how none of these experiences are the child’s or mother’s fault
• asthma case study, risk factors and recovery in a 9 year old child
• the type 1 diabetes (T1D) study I am conducting with Tony Madrid, PhD

This free ABEs webinar is 1 hour. Includes Q&A. Watch here on APPPAH’s website.

APPPAH is a nonprofit organization dedicated to education and informing health professionals and families about the science in the prenatal and perinatal sciences. Their mission is to support optimal conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences, with the aim of preventing birth trauma and promoting healing and resilience.

Watch my ABEs Webinar with Slides

• Intro
• 0940 minutes Onset triggers for chronic illness may have a common theme
• 13:10 min Introducing ABEs (Adverse Babyhood Experiences): 10 categories
• 17:50 min ABEs and autoimmune disease
• 19:08 min Type 1 diabetes and early risk factors
• 21:49 min It’s not the specific event: 2 common themes are proposed
• 23:15 min Intro to Bonding and bonding disruptions
• 26:00 min ABE survey results on the blog: 100 responses so far
•           The biggest column in the ABE survey results
• 31:30 min Asthma case example “Chrissy” and ABEs
• 34:00 min intro to part 2 of our study with a gentle treatment used for asthma
• 41:11 min more survey results
• 41:45 min type 1 diabetes (T1D) research – risk factors for T1D and studies
• 46:15 min Indicators of bonding disruptions in babies
• 47:30 min Our T1D study
• 51:00 min invitation to take the survey
• 52:40 Q&A
• 59:00 min co teaching certificate training in ABEs, likely starting spring 2026

Study Update

In this webinar I introduce the type 1 diabetes research study I am conducting with colleague Tony Madrid beginning at 41:45 minutes.

We are making great progress and still seek responses from mothers of children in good health with no asthma or other chronic health conditions to take our online survey, which takes about 15 minutes.

If you have already taken the survey for a child with type 1 diabetes and have another child who has no chronic health conditions, consider taking the survey for that child as well.

Participate in the survey if you are:

• A mother 18 years old or older
• Mother of a child 18 years old or younger

ABEs Resources for the ABEs Webinar

Free ABEs fact sheet and 10 other ABEs resources

Take the ABE survey on this blog

ABE survey results Part 1

Time magazine type 1 diabetes study I mention in the talk and the original study

Contact me I welcome your comments and questions