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- Blame teen rebelliousness on moms’ depression in pregnancy - Thaindian.com
- Victoria Hope Hid Triplet Pregnancy, Dies Giving Birth - Huffingtonpost.com
- Belief that pregnancy ruins a woman’s brain 'is a myth' - Daily Telegraph
- Scientist report first discovery of 'pregnancy hormone' in a plant - New Kerala
| Blame teen rebelliousness on moms’ depression in pregnancy - Thaindian.com Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:03 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. London, Feb 6 (IANS) Children whose mothers suffer from depression during pregnancy are more likely to show rebelliousness, including violent behaviour, in life. That's the conclusion of a new study conducted by researchers at Cardiff University, King's College London, and the University of Bristol. The study considered the role of mothers' depression by looking at 120 British youth from inner-city areas. "Much attention has been given to the effects of postnatal depression on young infants," notes Dale F. Hay, professor of psychology at Cardiff University Wales, a study co-author. "But depression during pregnancy may also affect the unborn child." The youths' mothers were interviewed while they were pregnant, after they gave birth, and when their children were four, 11, and 16-years-old, said a Cardiff release. The study found that mothers who became depressed when pregnant were four times as likely to have children who were violent at 16 years. This was true for both boys and girls. The mothers' depression, in turn, was predicted by their own aggressive and disruptive behaviour as teens. The link between depression in pregnancy and the children's violence couldn't be explained by other factors in the families' environments, such as social class, ethnicity, or family structure; the mothers' age, education, marital status, or IQ; or depression at other times in the children's lives. The research appeared in the January/February issue of Child Development.
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| Victoria Hope Hid Triplet Pregnancy, Dies Giving Birth - Huffingtonpost.com Posted: 03 Feb 2010 03:52 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. SHELTON, Conn. — A woman hid from her boyfriend and family members that she was carrying triplets, then bled to death while delivering the full-term but stillborn babies in her home, officials said Wednesday. Shelton police Detective Ben Trabka said he believes 26-year-old Victoria Hope denied being pregnant and instead gave medical reasons "why she had put on weight." Hope did not disclose her pregnancy to anyone police spoke to, including her boyfriend – the father of her children – Trabka said. The father suspected she was pregnant, but she denied it, and police do not know why she hid her condition. It wasn't clear whether the woman knew she was carrying triplets before giving birth Tuesday. Her father, William Hope, acknowledged Wednesday that his daughter was "big" and said he doesn't know why she hid her pregnancy. "That's going to be the question we'll never have an answer for," he said. The cause of the woman's death was loss of blood during unattended childbirth, the chief medical examiner's office said Wednesday. The woman's mother found her daughter and the triplets and called police, authorities said. The woman and babies were dead when police arrived; police said it appeared the triplets were carried to full term. Frances Hope, who with her husband lived with their daughter and her family, said she suspected her daughter was pregnant but did not know for sure. She said she did not know how far along her daughter was in her pregnancy. Foul play is not suspected, Trabka said. Victoria Hope and her boyfriend also have a 6-year-old son and a 2-year-old daughter, who was at home in a crib when the woman died, he said. "It's sad," Trabka said. It's a real tragedy." ___ Associated Press writer Stephen Singer in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report. Get HuffPost New York On Facebook and Twitter Know something we don't? E-mail us at nytips@huffingtonpost.comFive Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Belief that pregnancy ruins a woman’s brain 'is a myth' - Daily Telegraph Posted: 02 Feb 2010 11:32 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Mothers-to-be, and their partners, should not blame their forgetfulness or absent-mindedness on being pregnant, researchers said. Scientists have found that women's memories remain as capable during pregnancy as they were before. They blame mothering manuals and guidebooks for fuelling the myth of a "baby brain", which addles a woman's memory Prof Helen Christensen, from Australian National University, who led the study, said: "Part of the problem is that pregnancy manuals tell women they are likely to experience memory and concentration problems – so women and their partners are primed to attribute any memory lapse to the 'hard to miss' physical sign of pregnancy. "Pregnant women may also shift their focus away from work issues to help them prepare for the birth of their new baby, while new mothers selectively attend to their baby. "However, this shift in attentional focus is adaptive, and certainly cannot be labelled a 'cognitive deficit'." She warned that as well as expectant mothers, doctors and midwives also had to stop believing in the 'baby brain' myth. Professor Christensen said: "Women and their partners need to be less automatic in their willingness to attribute common memory lapses to a growing or new baby. And obstetricians, family doctors and midwives may need to use the findings from this study to promote the fact that 'placenta brain' is not inevitable." The study, the findings of which are published in the published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, tested 1,241 women aged between 20 and 24. The tests looked at the women's mental speed and working memory. Over the next four years the women were given the tests at regular intervals, including 76 while they were pregnant and 188 after giving birth. There were no significant changes in the women's mental agility or memory, the study found. In addition, there were no significant differences in the test scores of women who had become mothers and those who had not. They conclude that neither pregnancy nor motherhood has a detrimental effect on women's minds. Although some previous studies have shown that pregnant women perform on memory tests than non-pregnant women, Prof Christensen said that her research was the first to follow the same women before, during and after pregnancy. Cathy Warwick, general secretary of the Royal College of Midwives, said: "This is useful research that I have no doubt will be interesting to women and health professionals. "It is about time that some research lays to rest this notion of pregnant women and the 'baby brain' myth. "The physical and emotional stresses on a woman's body from pregnancy can make women feel more tired than usual. "As we all know tiredness – for men as well as women - can make us lose concentration and cause us to function less effectively. "This is why midwives encourage pregnant women to take appropriate rest breaks, at home and at work. "Many pregnant women will need this rest, and all of them deserve it." Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
| Scientist report first discovery of 'pregnancy hormone' in a plant - New Kerala Posted: 05 Feb 2010 01:31 AM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Washington, Feb 5 : Scientists are reporting the first discovery of the female sex hormone progesterone in a plant, a finding that overturns conventional wisdom as until now, it was thought that only animals could make progesterone.
Progesterone is a steroid hormone secreted by the ovaries that prepares the uterus for pregnancy and maintains pregnancy. "The significance of the unequivocal identification of progesterone cannot be overstated," the article by Guido F. Pauli and colleagues, states. "While the biological role of progesterone has been extensively studied in mammals, the reason for its presence in plants is less apparent," it adds. The scientists speculate that the hormone, like other steroid hormones, might be an ancient bioregulator that evolved billions of years ago, before the appearance of modern plants and animals. The new discovery may change scientific understanding of the evolution and function of progesterone in living things. Scientists previously identified progesterone-like substances in plants and speculated that the hormone itself could exist in plants. But researchers had not found the actual hormone in plants until now. Pauli and colleagues used two powerful laboratory techniques, nuclear magnetic resonance and mass spectroscopy, to detect progesterone in leaves of the Common Walnut, or English Walnut, tree. They also identified five new progesterone-related steroids in a plant belonging to the buttercup family. --ANI
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