Mood at Conception Affect Baby’s Happiness?
July 18, 2009 by Jennifer Walker-Journey
Filed under Parenting
I don’t want to get all personal on you, so I won’t share details of my son’s conception except to say that the wine was fine that night. (As it is, well, most nights.) Countless studies show how naughty it is to consume alcohol during pregnancy, but at the point of conception my ob/gyn says the whole fertilizing of cells aren’t really affected by alcohol. (Never mind that for some, alcohol may account for the act of conception in the first place.)
A study in a recent issue of Bioscience Hypotheses suggests that hormones and chemicals resulting from happiness, depression and …read more




