Abstract

EFFECT OF MATERNAL PSYCOLOGICAL STRESS (KRODHA-SHOKADI MANSIKA BHAVA) ON FETAL DEVELOPMENT

*Dr. Meera Rajani

ABSTRACT

Nature has given the magical power to the pregnant mother over the living material of her child. Throughout the nine months of pregnancy a women not only form the physical body of child, but psychological. Social and spiritual too. This built up is altered if mother is encircled with stress(krodh-shoka-chinta-bhay) and can have both immediate and long term effect on offspring. In Ayurveda, it is mentioned that garbhopaghatakara bhava (factors likely to harm the fetus) and its effect on fetus. The object of this paper is to introspect the effect of maternal stress on prenatal, perinatal, postnatal development of the fetus.

Keywords: Stress. Manasika bhava, Garbhini, Garbha. Antenatal -postnatal period, Featl outcome.