maybe we gagged & vomited our kid's way into the "gifted" classes at school...ha, ha.Morning sickness linked to smarter babies
Thu, Apr 23, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Children born to mothers who have morning sickness may be smarter than those whose moms don't have nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, suggests a new study.
Researchers found that the children of mothers with morning sickness scored higher on tests designed to assess children's IQ and mental acuity, the Canadian Press reported.
But while this difference was statistically significant, it doesn't mean that children born to mothers who didn't have nausea during pregnancy are developmentally slow, said senior author Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the Motherisk Program at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. It's just that the other children scored higher on the tests.
The study appears in the Journal of Pediatrics.
Nausea has long been recognized as a sign of a healthy pregnancy, according to the CP. Pregnant women who have morning sickness are less likely to have a miscarriage and less likely to have babies with congenital cardiovascular problems.
4 comments:
I was loving the article until it said sick-o moms like us were "less likely to have babies with congenital cardiovascular problems"...because I did. And I was sick as a DOG! But, hey, I'll take the smarter part!
Well, Colton should be a genius then! :)
Uh-oh, I was only mildly nauseated for all of my 1st trimesters. hee hee I'm not too worried, though.
I just read this! A fun thought to hold onto during this hellish phase of pregnancy. I guess I'd take a kid with average intelligence if I could bypass a couple of months of pregnancy sickness/nausea. Darah and her sibling should be brilliant - but I made my mom sick, and don't ask me about science or math! :)
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