Vocab lesson 6

Sedulous scientists with great affluence have been conducting research in Chile to determine if stress has an impact on the sex of a newborn baby. The scientists carefully perused the records of a a stressful 2005 earthquake. The bedlam the earthquake caused was definitely a sudden wake up call from their normally banal lives. One can imagine that the imminent danger would cause pregnant mothers to panic, being momentarily scurrilous, but what does this have to do with the sex of a baby? Based on the study, extreme stress during the third month of pregnancy reduced the ration of male to female births, which is normally 51:49. During times of stress this is reduced to 45:55. This is related to previous research, which shows that male fetuses need more recourses from their mother, and be less robust than females, and less capable of adapting to a stressful environment. It would be extremely amoral for a women to induce stress to try and influence the sex of her unborn child, and she would likely feel much antipathy from others. It is recommended that pregnant women try to eschew from any onerous situations, such as stress.
While fetuses in non stressful situations can often be obdurate during birth, the study shows that stressed fetuses are often born premature. The study of the 2005 earthquake was used to elucidate that idea as well. The denouement of the article concludes that in some way, stress and sex of a child is related. This is not a parody.


http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/hsn/stressearlyinpregnancylinkedtofewerbabyboys