Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Role of Stress in Brain Development (Dana Foundation)

When I was pregnant, I was terrified that my anxiety and stress would affect my babies' development. I've often heard that what we feel, the baby feels.

Of course, this subject is debated about a great deal. Some people believe that mommies can experience tremendous anxiety and stress and babies aren't affected at all while others believe it can do much harm.

No matter what your side of this argument is, I thought this article might help enlighten and inform a little. Thanks to the Dana Foundation for another wonderful article.

Feel free to share your thoughts!
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  1. Whew...a lot of info in that article, but I don't think they are affected in utero...at least not mine. If they were I'd be in trouble and so would they I cried for a month straight during the last month of my last pregnancy...and she is 13 now and never shown a sign of anything crazy, like me! :)

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    1. Hi Shannon! Yes, it was a pretty lengthy article but I thought it had some great info.

      I was so scared with my first (of course) and was going through alot of personal stuff in the second AND third then there were problems in utero with the fourth. So put that with my existing anxiety, I was scared my kids would come out bonkers too.

      Two of my kids have SPD but I don't think that has anything to do with my own anxiety and depression. At least I haven't seen any research showing this on their website.

      Sooo...YAY! I guess we're proof of the 'doesn't seem to affect' side of things. =)

      Thanks for commenting.

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