Physical activity during pregnancy enhances the metabolic health of offspring, but new research in mice indicates that ...

Support a mom’s peace, and you support her baby’s future There’s a growing body of science showing that the stress a pregnant woman experiences doesn’t stay with her—it may affect the baby’s body, ...

Pregnancy can be a stressful time for even the most relaxed moms-to-be. Happily, your pregnancy and baby won’t be impacted if you’re experiencing just the typical, everyday stress. Which means you don ...

Increased risk for anxiety may begin before birth, shaped by infection or stressful events during pregnancy, according to a new preclinical study from researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine. While ...

Persistent prenatal distress is associated with a significantly increased risk for epilepsy in offspring, a new study showed. Investigators emphasized that the risk was only slightly elevated, ...

While stress can affect your health during pregnancy, it does not cause miscarriages. You can do many things to help relieve yourself from stress and feel better during pregnancy. The short answer is ...

Maternal stress hormone levels during early pregnancy can have a lasting effect on the stress system of the offspring. The results of a long-term study on wild Assamese macaques in Thailand indicate ...

An article in the April issue of Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica reports the results of a longitudinal study which found that individuals whose mothers experienced subjective stress during pregnancy ...

While I was pregnant with my second child, my husband found a new job. We moved eight hours away to an unfamiliar, isolated place. My husband was gone four days a week for training related to his work ...