ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Impact of Maternal Prenatal Stress Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic during the First 1000 Days: A Historical Perspective.
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- Longitudinal links between prenatal maternal depression and anxiety symptoms and infant temperament: The roles of postnatal symptoms and perceived partner support.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Midwest Racial and Mental Health Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Retrospective Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
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- Impact of Vaccines Across the Lifespan: A New Perspective in Public Health-Conclusions of an Expert Panel-Part 2.Vaccines · 2026Review
- COVID-19 Pandemic Exposure and Toddler Behavioral Health in the ECHO Program.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The Influence of Pandemic-Related Worries During Pregnancy on Child Development at 12 Months.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- COVID-19 lockdowns affected birthing outcomes in a regional New South Wales Health District.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2024Article
- Impacts of COVID-19 on mothers' and newborns' health outcomes in regional Canada: A cross-sectional analysis.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Epigenetics of prenatal stress in humans: the current research landscape.Clinical epigenetics · 2024Review
- The science of uncertainty guides fetal-neonatal neurology principles and practice: diagnostic-prognostic opportunities and challenges.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Maternal perceived stress and infant behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- The Influence of Pandemic-Related Worries During Pregnancy on Child Development at 12 Months.Research square · 2023Article
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- Interdisciplinary fetal-neonatal neurology training applies neural exposome perspectives to neurology principles and practice.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- Common model of stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in pregnant women from seven high-income Western countries at the COVID-19 pandemic onset.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2022Article
- Pregnancy-Specific Stress during the First Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Assessing Face-to-Face versus Online Recruitment.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- A Cross-Sectional Study of the Marital Attitudes of Pregnant Women at Risk for Cystic Fibrosis and Psychological Impact of Prenatal Screening.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has a major impact on society, particularly affecting its vulnerable members, including pregnant women and their unborn children. Pregnant mothers reported fear of infection, fear of vertical transmission, fear of poor birth and child outcomes, social isolation, uncertainty about their partner's presence during medical appointments and delivery, increased domestic abuse, and other collateral damage, including vaccine hesitancy. Accordingly, pregnant women's known vulnerability for mental health problems has become a concern during the COVID-19 pandemic, also because of the known effects of prenatal stress for the unborn child. The current narrative review provides a historical overview of transgenerational effects of exposure to disasters during pregnancy, and the role of maternal prenatal stress. We place these effects into the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hereby, we aim to draw attention to the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women of reproductive age (15-49 year) and its potential associated short-term and long-term consequences for the health of children who are conceived, carried, and born during this pandemic. Timely detection and intervention during the first 1000 days is essential to reduce the burden of transgenerational effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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