prenatal stress
Gestational maternal tension
Prenatal stress refers to psychological or physical stress experienced by a pregnant woman that may affect fetal development.
Research links maternal stress during pregnancy to various outcomes in offspring, including low birth weight, behavioral differences, and altered stress responses.
The term appears frequently in developmental psychology and medicine: Studies on prenatal stress suggest lasting effects on child temperament.
- maternalOf or like mothers
- cortisolAdrenal steroid regulating stress
- fetalOf the unborn
- fetal developmentUnborn offspring's growth process
- wombFetal development organ
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