Article medically reviewed by midwife Lesley Gilchrist, BSc (Hons) Midwifery Studies, MSc Clinical Research Methods, who is the CEO and founder of My Expert Midwife and has been a midwife since 2003, ...
A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...
Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...