There was a study published in the Journal of Pediatrics of August 19th, 2020 looked at ways of how infant health and maternal recognition of how stress can affect after or during pregnancy. The study consisted of women from low income areas, and those that were overweight which were at the age of 28 years old. The women had to rate how they felt during challenges they had to endure. The infants born during this study had to get their medical records had looked at from the first year of life their life. There was a 38 percent increase for having infectious illnesses. There was a 73 percent increase from not having non-infectious illnesses with a increase of 53 percent in other illnesses amid the infants.It seems that the effect were more prone later in the pregnancy, but after the study was completed they later realized that stress and depression in mothers is not associated with increase in illnesses amongst the infants.
