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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been applying to smaller firms where I think I'd be happier but haven't gotten an offer in the range of what I could accept. I'm deeply dreading going back tomorrow. I hate my firm, it's a terrible fit. I didn't come close to hours last year, so I am sure the dissatisfaction is mutual. Also, I'm pregnant, so it's not a great time for job hunting. Would really appreciate some words of wisdom. [/quote]

If you are stressed out while pregnant, you should go on leave or switch jobs even if it pays less, before your baby is affected by the stress.  I went on leave at 4 months from a stressful job, no regrets and my DC was born healthy.  I was afraid of neuro problems from the stress.[/quote]

I'm not aware of any research that supports the idea that stressed but wealthy women have kids with neuro issues. All I've seen was also associated with being low income. [/quote]

Clinical studies link pregnant women’s exposure to a range of traumatic, as well as chronic and common life stressors (i.e., bereavement, job stress, daily hassles, and earthquake), to significant alterations in children’s neurodevelopment, including increased risk for mixed handedness, autism, affective disorders, and reduced cognitive ability[6]. More recently, maternal antenatal anxiety and/or depression have been shown to predict increased risk for neurodevelopmental disorders in children, and to confer risk for future mental illness. Reports show that elevated levels of antenatal depression and anxiety are associated with poor emotional adjustment in young children [7]. The impact of women’s anxiety (and/or depression) during pregnancy has been found to extend into childhood and adolescence, as well as to affect the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis, predicting attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in 8–9 year old children [8]as well as alterations in HPA axis activation in 4 month olds in our laboratory [9] and in 10 [10], and 14–15 year olds [11]. The majority of these studies have controlled for women’s postnatal mood, as well as other demographic factors, yet the possibility that the women’s’ antenatal mood is a marker for qualities in the postnatal environment that affect child development cannot be ruled out. What these data suggest is that, in addition to the known pathways for the familial transmission of risk for mental illness, genetics, environment, and gene X environment interactions, there is another possibility: that some of the risk is conferred prenatally via changes in women’s mood–based physiology affecting fetal neurobehavioral development.[/quote]

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