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In this cohort study of insurance data over an 18-year period covering more than 15,000 pregnancies that involved methadone or buprenoprine use, buprenorphine in pregnancy was associated with a lower risk of adverse neonatal outcomes versus methadone use. However, the risk of adverse maternal outcomes was similar.

For moms with highest levels of morning caffeine intake, at age 7-8 their children were about ½ to 1 inch shorter compared with mothers with no or lower caffeine intake.

Pregnant women who filled prescriptions for bupropion, citalopram, escitalopram, fluoxetine, or sertraline during pregnancy (antidepressant-exposed cohort) and pregnant women who did not fill an antidepressant prescription within 90 days of the start of their pregnancy through delivery (control group) were the subjects of the study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the United States. The main finding concerned the frequency of ADHD, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), behavioral disorder, developmental coordination disorder, developmental speech or language disorder, intellectual disability, any NDDs, and specific learning disorders among the children of the women in the study.

Some studies in children have reported a relationship between antidepressant use in pregnancy and neurodevelopment disorders after birth. In this analysis of 145,702 antidepressant-exposed and 3,032,745 unexposed pregnancies, crude results suggested up to a doubling in risk of neurodevelopmental outcomes. Significantly, however, no association was observed after balancing for confounding variables.

Nearly 20,000 mother-child pairs were tracked over a median follow-up of 4 years. After adjusting for maternal risk factors and their children’s own ultra-processed food intake, physical activity, and sedentary time, maternal consumption of ultra-processed foods during the child-rearing period was associated with overweight or obesity in offspring with a 26% higher risk in the group with the highest maternal ultra-processed food consumption.

When tested at 32 weeks gestation, fetuses whose mothers ate carrots reacted with smiles, while those whose mothers ate kale showed crying faces. And those reactions became more expressive as the fetuses mature.