Until now scientists have "noted" there are about 6 "threats" that threaten the safety of children since I was in the womb.
1. Cancer.
Exposure to air pollution gets worse in big cities. Research carried out on a number of mothers in the area of Manhattan and the South Bronx, New York, revealing the vehicles smoke inhalation triggered babies born with low weight and the occurrence of cardiac malformations (heart formation is less than perfect). Pollutants found in the investigators in the mother in Manhattan and the South Bronx, America is the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs abbreviated). That is, pollutants that are found in motor vehicle fumes, factory smoke and fumes. Exposure to PAHs during pregnancy can cause DNA damage that increases the risk of cancer and cause the baby to have the possibility of two times more likely to experience delays in the development of intelligence in the age of 3 years.
2. Heart Disease.
The study team David Barker showed, inadekuat food intake (less) in the mother during pregnancy, making fetal transfer of nutrients entering or absorbed to the development of most vital organs, namely brain. Meanwhile, the development of other organs so little "ignored", and eventually in the next 20 years work of the heart so weak. Babies born weighing less a result of maternal nutrient intake during comprehend the less risk of heart disease due to lack of food intake disrupt heart development.
3. Obesity.
Studies conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School in the long term to reveal: the greater the weight of expectant mothers during pregnancy, the greater the risk of obese children will begin to age 3 years. Further study is still linked to the first study did show a link excessive weight gain in the mother during pregnancy causes the baby in the womb is a higher risk of obesity when he turned a teenager.
4. Diabetes.
"I always ask for birth weight to patients with diabetes that I deal with," he said Mary-Elizabeth Patti, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Experts are also physicians and researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center, America reveals the close links between the risk of diabetes and low birth weight. Same with the risk of heart disease, diabetes in adulthood, triggered by the intake of nutrients that are lacking. Conversely, weight gain in pregnant women also trigger excessive metabolic disorders in the fetus.
5. Schizophrenia.
Conditions during pregnancy was also affecting the temperament, intelligence and mental health of children to adults later. The study revealed that pregnant women let him starve or are in a stressful condition of high-risk birth children who have schizophrenia (mental disorder that complex). Catherine Monk, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, United States, found the mood of the mother even before pregnancy affects the psychological and mental development of children. The research team is still trying to find, how the mother's mood directly affects fetal development. Pregnant women tend to bear the stress and starvation of children with schirzophrenia because of lack of nutrients will interfere with neurological development.