Prenatal Stress Management
The human body-mind is a neurochemical system. Science now knows that every emotion and thought results in a cascade of neurochemical changes which affect the body on the cellular level. Ongoing stress results in a destructive toll to the body and mind, crippling the immune system and precipitating disease.
Science now also knows that a baby in the uterus is directly connected to the mother's biochemistry, and that stress on the mother, is stress on the fetus. Severe, unmanaged prenatal stress has been associated with potential predisposition for a range of illnesses, psychiatric and physical, including low birth weight, intellectual delay, asthma and allergies, even schizophrenia.
It is becoming increasingly clear that the prenatal environment is much more important to a child's ongoing development than had previously been realized. Consequently, management of the mother's stress level is a critical component of pre-birth preparation.
