Episode 86 - Maternal Age & Pregnancy

On this episode of The Health & Happiness Podcast, we're taking a look at the science on maternal age and pregnancy. What complications arise based on age? Are there other factors involved? Unfortunately, there's a shockingly low amount of research on this topic, but we took a dive into what we could find to answer some of these questions.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4532312/
https://www.webmd.com/baby/news/20140203/babies-born-to-moms-over-35-may-have-lower-risk-for-certain-birth-defects
https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12884-019-2400-x
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article-abstract/111/Supplement_1/1152/28574/Maternal-Obesity-and-Risk-for-Birth-Defects
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1047279720302878
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002937819310300
https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1521693420300961?token=B43688DBA743DB7CB0CFCF87A6AB2E15CEEB716731B557A0371B4E6174562782AA8E9E6B3B66581E2798B577ED144208&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20221001222502
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/dmcn.12017?src=getftr
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0887899416308360
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/what-percent-young-adults-obese/2021/12/03/b6010f98-5387-11ec-9267-17ae3bde2f26_story.html