According to a recent study conducted by researchers out of Australia, each gender responds differently in utero to a mother’s stress. Male and female babies seem to react differently when their mother is in poor health or is experiencing other forms of stress.
Researchers found that when a mother is stressed, male babies continue to grow, disregarding the mother’s condition. For females, growth rates are reduced somewhat when a mother is experiencing stress.
When a mother experiences some other stress or that same stress again, male babies have a greater risk of pre-term delivery, growth problems and fetal death than female babies. Females tend to continue growing at their regular pace when a second stress occurs.
Lead author Vicki Clifton, an associate professor at Robinson Institute at the University of Adelaide, and her team are continuing to look at what occurrences cause these growth changes in male and female fetuses and how they can improve results.
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