Monday, June 22, 2009

First-trimester working conditions affect birthweight

From Nursing Birth (an incredible blog by an L&D nurse, and one which I highly recommend): apparently the American Journal of Public Health is publishing a study which indicates that high levels of job strain in the first trimester can contribute to lower-birthweight babies.

It makes me wonder how big this baby would be if I HADN't been running my butt off last fall!

But kidding aside, it makes me thankful to have a flexible enough job that I was able to take a day off here and there when I felt like I needed to. And as I'm sitting with my puffy feet up on my first Monday off of work at 37 weeks, that feels very right to me, too. And I feel very lucky.

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