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"Babies with anxious mothers 'feel more pain' during jabs," is today's headline in The Daily Telegraph.
The story comes from a study looking at whether a baby's "pain behaviours" (such as crying and tensing their limbs) during their first immunisation is affected by their mother's mental health or if she is a first-time mother.
Despite The Telegraph's headline, the study did not show any direct association between maternal anxiety (at least, long-term pre-existing anxiety disorder) and infant distress.
It did show that the babies of first-time mothers expressed more "pain behaviours" both before and during the first vaccination than the babies of mothers who have other children.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Jabs-more-upsetting-babies-first-time-mums.aspx
The story comes from a study looking at whether a baby's "pain behaviours" (such as crying and tensing their limbs) during their first immunisation is affected by their mother's mental health or if she is a first-time mother.
Despite The Telegraph's headline, the study did not show any direct association between maternal anxiety (at least, long-term pre-existing anxiety disorder) and infant distress.
It did show that the babies of first-time mothers expressed more "pain behaviours" both before and during the first vaccination than the babies of mothers who have other children.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2013/01January/Pages/Jabs-more-upsetting-babies-first-time-mums.aspx