Does Mother's Emotions During Pregnancy Affects Baby's Personality

Wed Dec 7, 2022

Pregnancy is a period in which hormones are not only a factor in the woman's body but also her thoughts. The way that a woman thinks about her pregnancy affects her feelings and those emotions transfer to the child in the womb, whether happy or sorrowful. Experts on the subject suggest that babies are nurtured during the pregnancy with not only oxygen and food as well as either negative or positive thoughts mommy feels. Let's look at what happens.

What Are The Different Ways In Which A Pregnant Woman's Feelings Can Affect Baby Brain?

Research suggests that pregnant women's emotions are linked to her unborn baby through neurohormones. Since emotions are composed of hormones and other chemical compounds within the body and brain, what a woman during pregnancy thinks she has to transmit to the baby. If a woman during pregnancy is anxious, angry or sad and depressed, her body releases certain chemicals and molecules within the body, which are transferred to the infant.

Stressed mothers will transmit the same emotions to her baby and trigger the baby's endocrine system , and influence the development of the brain. A woman's emotional state during pregnancy has been discovered to influence flow of blood to the fetus and alter the growth of the baby.


Do my emotions during pregnancy Influence the personality of my baby?

Certain studies show that the way a baby grows after birth may be dependent on the chemical signals the fetus receives. Experts say that the mother's mental situation during pregnancy and following birth influences the overall development and development of the personality. There is evidence to suggest that the emotions released into the blood of women during their pregnancy can affect the baby's temperament and how his personality develops.

A lot of women who have experienced difficult pregnancies report that their children are extremely sensitive and emotional , and are not able to handle stress. Mothers who suffer from depression during pregnancy also have children that are depressed following the birth. They are also slower to grow and the reverse applies. If a baby's development is filled with positive thoughts and happiness creates the foundation for a positive and tranquil life to come.

Studies have shown that the mother's emotional stability is among the most significant factors that affect the development of a child. As a mother can hear the baby while in the infancy, so the baby also has the ability to feel and listen to the mother. The communication between mother and the child is the primary reason for the development of the infant, physically as well as psychologically.

Ashutosh Bhardwaj, MBBS, DCH, PGDUS, PGPN
He is a Pediatrician and Neonatologist with passion of teaching on pregnancy diet and nutrition, scientific womb talk trainer, and baby brain development trainer.