Study:Depression of a Pregnant woman will affect the fetus

A recent study on pregnant women has established that depression suffered by them will affect the fetus, causing allergy and asthma.

Researchers from the HarvardUniversity in the US, undertook a study to correlate the relationship between the mental condition of the pregnant women and its effect on the fetus, by examining the blood samples of the fetus. The results were announced by the Professor Raesalind..

According to the results published, it was revealed that the mental depression suffered by the pregnant women will also affect the fetus. When pregnant women suffer from mental depression due to family disputes, financial problems etc, consequently it increases the level of  immunoglobin in the blood of the fetus.

Hence, the concerned children have the complaints of allergy and asthma even at the time of their birth, according to Dr.Raesalind.

Therefore, it is important that a pregnant lady should be happy during her pregnancy and congenial atmosphere should prevail to keep her in a good mental frame.

It is relevant to mention here that according to Tamil culture, they perform a function called ‘Poochoottal’ or ‘Seemantham’ or ‘Valaikappu ‘ in order to make the pregnant woman happy and  keep her in a good mental frame of mind.