Don’t Stress Too Much About Pregnancy Stress

Why you probably don’t need to worry about recent headlines linking pregnancy stress to personality disorders in children

Pictured: Stressful, probably Source: Pexels

There are endless opinions about the experience of pregnancy, from delightful to horrendous, and everything in between. But one thing many people do agree on is that, at some point in the process, it can get a bit stressful. It makes sense — you are making a human life and bringing it into the world, and if nothing else is true about humanity it’s that we are all very stress-inducing animals.

Pictured: As anyone with anxiety can attest, very stressful Source: Pexels

And for anyone who is currently pregnant or is planning on being so in the future, this week must’ve been an extra-stressful experience. Headlines from around the world have been screaming that not only is stress during pregnancy a pretty uncomfortable experience at the best of times, it’s also causing your child to have mental health problems later in life.

According to the media, any stress during pregnancy makes your child “three times” more likely to develop personality disorders — a broad term that encompasses depression, anxiety disorders, and some types of…