Pregnant women who experience financial, emotional, or other personal stress in the year before their delivery have an increased chance of having a stillbirth. A woman experiencing five or more stressful events was nearly 2.5 times more likely to have a stillbirth- death of a foetus at 20 or more weeks of pregnancy. Even two stressful events increased a woman’s odds of stillbirth by about 40% report US researchers in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
The biggest stressors were the woman having been in a fight (which doubled the chances for stillbirth), if she had heard her partner say he didn’t want the baby, or if she or her partner had gone to jail in the year before the delivery.
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Hindustan Times, Wellness
31/03/2013
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