“The baby is then primed to live in a state of high stress, and there are studies which suggest that infants of anxious mums are more temperamental or difficult to settle.” Implications of findingsĭoctors here find the study results impactful, as they now have local data to use in their practice, where previously they relied on research in other populations. SingHealth group, said that while an unborn baby may not sense his mother’s distress, stress hormones can cross the placenta and influence the baby’s structural brain development. KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital (KKH), a member of the The study is a sub-study of the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) study, and a joint effort of KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH), the National University Health System, and the Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.Įxplaining how babies might be affected in the womb,ĭr Helen Chen, Head and Senior Consultant, Researchers studied the mental and emotional states of 1,200 mothers and scanned their babies’ brains at a week old as well as later in life. He may be shorter at birth, and as he develops, he may be more distracted, and have poorer memory. The more depressed a mother is, the more her baby is affected.
How a mother's mental state might affect her unborn babyĪccording to the preliminary findings of a landmark local study, such babies have less developed limbic systems in their brains (networks linked to things such as memory, stress regulation, emotional reactions and decision-making).
When a pregnant woman is severely stressed, anxious or depressed, she is not the only one suffering.
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