At 6 months, we estimated the association between maternal symptoms of anxiety and child nocturnal awakenings to be owing to several nonsignificant pathways. (academic.oup.com)
No birth defects were reported among the pregnancies with maternal symptoms or exposure only in the second trimester (0 %; 95 % CI, 0 % -5 % [0/76]-RRB- or third trimester (0 %; 95 % CI, 0 % -11 % [0/31]-RRB-, but there are insufficient data to adequately estimate the proportion affected during these trimesters (Table 1). (jamanetwork.com)
Nevertheless, the present study did not reveal similar processes for fathers, suggesting that fathers» depressive symptoms might not impact family - level relationships, or the child, as strongly as maternal symptoms do. (frontiersin.org)