A new study shows that women who were abused in childhood are at increased risk of babies with low birth weight. It also found that poverty in childhood and substance use during adolescence and pregnancy increase the chances of having babies with low birth weight are at increased risk of death during the first year of life and chronic health problems . About eight percent of babies born in the U.S.. UU. each year are underweight, less than 2,500 grams (5 pounds, 8 ounces) Researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle examined data from 136 mothers who had participated in a study from his childhood. They found that women who suffered emotional, physical or sexual abuse or child poverty were more likely to smoke, drink or use drugs during pregnancy, which increases the risk of having a baby of low birth weight. "Our findings suggest that the mother's economic position in childhood and their experience of abuse during the same implications for their children," she said in a news release from the university Amelia Gavin, author of the study and assistant professor Assistant School of Social Work. "The importance of this study is that it was the experience of poverty and abuse of the mother during childhood, not poverty or depression, or obesity in adulthood, contributing to low birth weight baby" he said. Physicians should ask mothers about any abuse in childhood and offer help to those who are at risk of substance abuse during pregnancy, suggested Gavin.
Source University of Washington
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