How dangerous stress during pregnancy

Stress at times during pregnancy actually programs the child out to suffer from anxiety and anxiety in later life. So expectant mothers need to keep a good mood.

Scientists from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in London have established a link between high levels   stress during pregnancy and subsequent child vulnerability to behavioral problems and anxiety. And though it has long been known that an alarm is transmitted and mother to her child, and now scientists have shown how long can this problem.

British researchers found that children of mothers who are victims of domestic violence during pregnancy have genetic differences with their peers born after a pregnancy quiet. Differences occur when the baby begins to respond to stress.

As the scientists Helen Gunter and Thomas Elbert, maternal   Stress during pregnancy   It affects their future development in children glucocorticoid receptor gene, which plays a fundamental role in the formation of stress response. This was reported in the journal Translational Psychiatry.

"What our study does add to the already known facts, is the fact that biological changes in the body of a child takes place only if the pregnancy of his mother develops under stress - says Dr. Carmine Pariante. - This confirms the assumption that during pregnancy the female body exhibits a unique sensitivity to all external changes. There reaction is much more severe than after birth. "

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