Women in long term relationships have healthier babies
Filed under: Baby health — Alan @ 7:44 am
A surprising study from New Zealand found that babies who are born after their mothers are exposed to their father’s semen for an extended amount of time benefit in the long run.
The study found that women who have a longer sexual history with their partner versus those who have short term sexual relations and then get pregnant, have a reduced chance of pre-eclampsia as well low birth weight babies.
The study was conducted by doctors at the University of Auckland and included 2507 women who were pregnant for the first time. Each of the women was asked how long they had been in an intimate relationship with the father of their babies.
As the pregnancies of the women came to term it was found that women who had long term sexual relationships exclusively with their partner were less likely to suffer from pregnancy induced hypertension also known as pre-eclampsia.
On the other hand, women who were in shorter relationships before becoming pregnant were much more likely to have smaller undeveloped children during their 20 week ultrasounds which showed the foetus had reduced blood flow to it.
One of the reviewers of the study, Dr. Larry Chamley, stated that during pregnancy longer exposure of a woman’s immune system to the male’s antigens (semen) helped it to tolerate its response to the antigens of the father.
He continued to say that while it cannot be ascertained for certain if prolonged sexual exposure can prevent pre-eclampsia, the study does help show that semen may aid in prevention.
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