Oct 18, 2019
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A pregnant woman under emotional or physical stress is more likely to give birth to a male. Epidemiologists and obstetricians at New York’s Columbia University report this association after analyzing data from 187 women.
In a general population, the chance of birthing a boy is 51%. For women suffering emotional stress, marked anxiety, and depression, that percentage drops to 40%. Physical stress including blood pressure and weight problems, drops the chance to 31%. Stress also diminishes normal fetal heart rate changes and triggers birth complications.
The antidote to all this stress is love, social support, and professional care. If you’re pregnant, see that you get it. If you care for those who are pregnant, give it!
Kate Walsh, Clare A. McCormack, Rachel Webster, Anita Pinto, Seonjoo Lee, Tianshu Feng, H. Sloan Krakovsky, Sinclaire M. O’Grady, Benjamin Tycko, Frances A. Champagne, Elizabeth A. Werner, Grace Liu, Catherine Monk. Maternal prenatal stress phenotypes associate with fetal neurodevelopment and birth outcomes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019; 201905890 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1905890116
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