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Published online 21 July 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000727-2
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Baby blues
Chronic depression during pregnancy can affect the fetus and newborn baby, reports Su-yen Thornhill.
Newborn babies of chronically depressed mothers behave abnormally and have hormone levels similar to those of their mothers, researchers announced at the British Psychological Society's International Conference on Infant Studies this week in Brighton, UK.
Depressed people tend to have too much of the hormone 'cortisol' in their blood.
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