Pre-Natal Injury and Transferred Malice: The Invented Other

Pre-natal and post-natal anxiety in relation to pre-pregnancy obesity: a cohort study on Iranian pregnant women.

Background: To determine the association between pre-conception obesity and screening results of pre-natal and post-natal anxiety in women referred to the health centers of Tabriz, Iran. Methods: 62 obese (class 2-3) and 245 normal-weight women were enrolled in the first trimester of pregnancy through the cohort study and followed up 1 year after childbirth from December 2012 to January 2016. ...

Influence of the pre-natal environment on post-natal growth.

Pre-natal social stress and post-natal pain affect the developing pig reproductive axis.

This study assessed the effect of pre-natal social stress and post-natal pain on the reproductive development of young (approximately day 40) pigs. Male pigs carried by sows that were stressed by mixing with unfamiliar older sows for two 1-week periods during mid-pregnancy had lower plasma testosterone (0.54 vs 0.86 ng/ml, S.E.D.=0.11; P=0.014) and oestradiol (E(2); 22.9 vs 38.7 pg/ml, S.E.D.=7...

Pre-natal and post-natal growth trajectories and childhood cognitive ability and mental health.

BACKGROUND Most studies of the associations between pre-natal or post-natal growth and cognitive ability have been based on children with pathologically slow growth measured between two time points only, rather than children with normal growth trajectories estimated from multiple measures of growth. METHODS We investigated the associations of pre-natal and post-natal trajectories in both weig...

The luteo-placental shift, the guardian of pre-natal life.

Introduction The 'Iuteo-placental shift' is defined here as a shift in progesterone synthesis during pregnancy from the corpus luteum to the placenta. Distinct changes in the regulation of uterine function follow. It is predicted that this shift in the anatomical site ofhormone support, from an extrato an intra-uterine location, changes the distribution of progesterone, the character of the myo...