Having children is very hard for anyone - you get very little sleep for a few years of your life when your kids are very young. Its exhausting and very stressful - for anyone. Key things that help are having family support (parent’s, or other close friends that can help and give you a break when you need it).
I would recommend reading these documents:
Preventing Schizophrenia
This is a little old - but wanted to make sure everyone knows about it:
This new study shows the potential for prenatal choline to significantly reduce the risk of mental illness in children. While this one study only focuses on schizophrenia, stress hormones during pregnancy (which choline reduces significantly) increases risk of all mental illness - so this approach likely will reduce the incidences of all mental illnesses. This is really big news.
A study of nearly 200 women suggests children whose mothers get the flu while pregnant are at a higher risk of developing schizophrenia.
In the study, researchers from New York State Psychiatric Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University measured flu antibodies in serum samples from 64 pregnant women whose offspring later developed adult schizophrenia and from a comparison group of 125 pregnant women whose offspring did not develop schizophrenia.
They found that those who had the flu in the first half of pregnancy were three times more likely to have a child develop schizophrenia than noninfected women. But the link wasn’t observed in women who got the flu dur…
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