Many have observed that pregnant women have different behaviors depending on the gender of the baby. Now medical science might be confirming that notion. A pregnant woman's health is dependent on the baby's gender, as a study shows.
For years women have said that they one behavior if the baby is a boy, and another if it's a girl. That has not been confirmed until a recent study has been made about it. Researchers from the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center studied this with 80 pregnant women. The researchers followed on the women's different pregnancy phases to see what affects them.
The researchers found that pregnant women can have different levels of cytokines. This depended on the gender of the baby they're having. Cytokines are the immune markers that protect the body from infection.
Amanda Mitchell, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, has observed that immune cells produced more cytokines if they're carrying female babies than those who have male babies. While this might be good in some cases, cytokines can also trigger inflammatory responses as well.
Too much inflammation can lead to stress on the body. This then can make a person sick, according to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center's site. It could be a reason why some pregnant women feel fatigued and sick during that time.
Mitchell has said that the research should help pregnant women as well as obstetricians know how a baby's gender can play a role with health during pregnancy. Health conditions such as asthma can be triggered during pregnancy, and knowing what triggers it can help. There is still much research that would be done on the role of a baby's gender to a woman's health during pregnancy, as Science Daily reports.
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