Maternal health issues linked to 62% spike in child developmental problems

Children experience developmental delays and potential long-term health complications when mothers have untreated health conditions.

A new study places a striking number — 62% — at the center of an old truth: the health of a mother and the flourishing of her child are not separate stories. Researchers have found that when mothers carry untreated health conditions through pregnancy and early parenthood, their children show measurable delays in cognitive, motor, and behavioral development during the years when the brain is most formative. The finding is less a discovery than a clarification — a reminder that the earliest environment a child inhabits is, in the most literal sense, another person's body and life.

Maternal health issues linked to 62% spike in child developmental problems

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