MAKE BABY HAPPY WITH CHOCOLATE WHILE PREGNANCY
Some of woman worry to eat chocolate while they are pregnant, because of to
much sugar will make the baby become very big. But some research from Finland
discover that eat chocolate for pregnancy woman will make the baby become happy.
Expectant mothers can take heart this Easter. Tucking into chocolate eggs is
good for the baby, according to a study of over 300 women - especially if you
are feeling a bit on edge.
Katri Raikkonen at the University of Helsinki, Finland, and her colleagues
asked pregnant women to rate their stress levels and chocolate consumption.
After the babies were born, they looked for an association between the amount
of chocolate their mothers had eaten and the babies' behaviour. Six months after
birth, the researchers asked mothers to rate their infants' behaviour in various
categories, including fear, soothability, smiling and laughter.
The babies born to women who had been eating chocolate daily during pregnancy
were more active and "positively reactive" - a measure that encompasses
traits such as smiling and laughter.
And the babies of stressed women who had regularly consumed chocolate showed
less fear of new situations than babies of stressed women who abstained.
The researchers point out that they cannot rule out the possibility that chocolate
consumption and baby behaviour are both linked with some other factor.
But they speculate that the effects they observed could result from chemicals
in chocolate associated with positive mood being passed on to the baby in the
womb. (by newscientist.com)
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