Lasting legacy of womb problems

[Hulababy]

BBC story

"These results reinforce how important it is that pregnant mothers watch what they eat and try to maintain good health."

More to worry about then? Or something to take on board?

Thanks for the link. Interesting story. Definitely even more to worry about for a mum who ended up depressed/anxious on Prozac in pregnancy - hopefully the chocolate addiction counteracted that(!) The difficulty with these stories is they always contain such vague recommendations - avoid stress, eat well that they are not a great deal of use. In an ideal world, pregnant women would be happy, chilled, eating really well etc. Unfortunately real life can intrude - ante-natal depression, morning sickness, straings in home/work life. Don't know if it is just me, but I suspect that stories like this make mums who had a stressed pregnancy feel rather guilty.

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Whenever I see a study like this, I always think "OK, if they're going to tell us all this stuff about what to do in pregancy, why don't they tell the government to introduce the right to stop working as soon as we discover we are pregnant, introduce vouchers for organic food so that everyone can afford to eat good quality food, and have lithe Thai young men coming to give us massages every day of our pregnancy on the NHS? And that's just for starters - I could go on!