{"id":3249,"date":"2019-06-14T12:05:17","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2019-06-14T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T02:05:17","slug":"mental-health-of-mothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2019\/06\/14\/mental-health-of-mothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental health of mothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of this year\u2019s Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, we are highlighting the important new work emerging from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/cah\/research\/2000_Stories\/\">2000 Stories<\/a> Study and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/cah\/research\/Australian_Temperament_Project\/\">Australian Temperament Project<\/a> &#8211; Generation 3 Study. Lead author, Elizabeth Spry\u2019s recent paper, <em>Maternal mental health and infant emotional reactivity: a 20-year two-cohort study of preconception and perinatal exposures<\/em>\u00a0examines whether a mother\u2019s mental health before, during and after pregnancy predicts early emotional sensitivity in their infant.<\/p>\n<p>The full paper is available here <a href=\"bit.ly\/2D6EhAY\">bit.ly\/2D6EhAY<\/a>, or download the accepted manuscript here (no paywall) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HeGbMCVyzp\">bit.ly\/2VG5mlG\u00a0<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3250 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"2550\" height=\"2390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic.png 2550w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic-296x277.png 296w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic-768x720.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2019\/06\/Spry_PsychologicalMedicine_Reactivity-infographic-444x416.png 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2550px) 100vw, 2550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the mental health of mothers before pregnancy predict emotional sensitivity in their children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":3251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3253,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}