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Parental experience, as well as changing hormone levels during pregnancy and postpartum, cause changes in the parental brain. [1] Displaying maternal sensitivity towards infant cues, processing those cues and being motivated to engage socially with her infant and attend to the infant's needs in any context could be described as mothering ...
Scans of the changes that occur in the brain of a pregnant woman. Researchers followed a 38-year-old woman three weeks before conception, and two years postpartum, tracking the changes to her ...
Precision imaging uncovers key brain changes in pregnancy. For this study, researchers followed a 38-year-old woman, ... With the brain, this process happens early in development, again during ...
The functional implications these brain changes may have for birthing parents have yet to be determined, said Dr. Elseline Hoekzema, head of the Pregnancy and the Brain Lab at Amsterdam University ...
A woman's breasts change during pregnancy to prepare them for breastfeeding a baby. Normal changes include: Tenderness of the nipple or breast; An increase in breast size over the course of the pregnancy; Changes in the color or size of the nipples and areola; More pronounced appearance of Montgomery's tubercles (bumps on the areola)
Prenatal perception is the study of the extent of somatosensory and other types of perception during pregnancy.In practical terms, this means the study of fetuses; none of the accepted indicators of perception are present in embryos.
Laura Pritschet, from the University of California, and colleagues analysed the pregnancy-related brain changes of a healthy 38-year-old woman who underwent IVF.
Overall, those children who were exposed to cocaine during pregnancy had lower scores on the Short Term Memory scale than unexposed children at all age levels, especially boys. Cocaine exposure also predicted lower IQ scores in general. [32] Exposing prenatal offspring to cocaine can cause irreversible damage and increase developmental risks. [32]