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Research carried out by Rutgers Health and Yale University suggests that being a parent may have benefits for brain function in later life. The study used family information and analysed brain scans from the UK Biobank, looking in particular at areas associated with movement, connection and senses as well as at how different areas of the brain communicate with each other.
A stillbirth is widely defined as the loss of a foetus from 28 weeks’ gestation – a definition recommended by the World Health Organisation - and a miscarriage is defined as the loss of a pregnancy up to 20 weeks.
Little research has been done into the functions and properties of amniotic fluid across the entire pregnancy period and during birth, due to the potential difficulties in acquiring samples.
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