Among the many negative consequences of stress on the health of pregnant women and their baby, it is increasingly evident that stress in the mother affects the weight of babies, as Lola told us a while ago, and a new study seems to confirm this fact.
The study, whose title we could translate as "The reduced weight of babies at birth as a result of the mother's exposure to traumatic viatles events", determines that women who have suffered traumatic episodes during or before pregnancy may be at risk of giving birth A low weight baby.
The conclusions were that women who had lost a member of their family during pregnancy or up to 6 months before they had a 22% chance more than other women of having a baby with low birth weight.
It also influences the low weight of the baby if the mother has had to go through the serious illness of a relative.
The research has been published in the latest issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine and is carried out by experts from the University of Manchester of the United Kingdom, who studied data from more than one million women who gave birth in Denmark between 1979 and 2002.
Taking into account that the number of babies born with low weight has doubled due to stress and tobacco, we talk about a problem increasingly present in our society and although there are traumatic personal circumstances that can not be avoided, we can act before others circumstances, less stressful, but also negatively influence our health and that of the baby.
