Environmental Causes
Posted on March 22nd, 2007
Stress (pre-birth)
Major Stressful Life Events & Birth Defects
[Summary]1
Stressful Life Events and Birth Defects: Women who experience at least one stressful event, such as divorce, death of someone very close, or job loss, are more likely to have a baby with isolated cleft lip and palate, spinal defects, and certain heart defects.
This report indicated that stressful life events were 30% to 50% more common among mothers whose babies had any of the birth defects studied: serious heart defects, neural tube defects, oral clefts, and limb defects.
The Report does state however that while stressful life events are common, the vast majority of women who experience these events deliver babies without birth defects.
Date: April 2001
- California Birth Defects Monitoring Program Funded through the California Departemnt of Health Services and jointly administered with the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. http://www.cbdmp.org/ef_stress.htm [verified 22 March 2007] [↩]
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