Citation

Hudziak JJ. Pediatrics 2018; 141(4): ePub.

Affiliation

Division of Child Psychiatry, Vermont Center on Children, Youth, and Families, Burlington, Vermont; Robert Larner College of Medicine, The University of Vermont and Fletcher Allen Health Care, Burlington, Vermont; Erasmus University Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Department of Psychiatry (Child), School of Medicine, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri; and Department of Psychiatry, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire james.hudziak@med.uvm.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Academy of Pediatrics)

DOI

10.1542/peds.2018-0232

PMID

29559587

Abstract

In their article, “Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Infant Development,” Racine et al1 add another important piece to what is known about the importance of maternal health and wellness in infant health outcomes. The authors collected data from a questionnaire as a proxy measure of the Adverse Child Experience Scale from nearly 2000 mothers during pregnancy.2 The authors compared these self-reported Adverse Child Experiences Scale scores to later psychosocial risk and hostile parenting when their infants were 4 months of age and to measures of child development at age 12 months.

The main finding resonates with all of us who work in this field. Carrying an infant in the womb is not easy work, and the authors claim this job is made even …

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