Study Focuses On Environmental Stresses On Pregnancy

Pregnancy can be stressful enough. There’s the need to worry about eating the right thing, completing the correct prenatal exercises, among a heap of tasks. Add an environmental issue on top of that and pregnant females have more to worry about.researchers recently found that expectant mothers who had to deal with the stress of a major hurricane or tropical storm passing by during their pregnancy suffered...

Stress during pregnancy can negatively affect newborns' health

Expectant mothers who dealt with the strain of a hurricane or major tropical storm passing nearby during their pregnancy had children who were at elevated risk for abnormal health conditions at birth, a new study has found.The study led by a Princeton University researcher used birth records from Texas and meteorological information to identify children born in the state between 1996 and 2008 whose...