Mothers who experienced a flood during the first trimester of their pregnancy were more likely to have a pre-term or still birth.
Babies born early and at a lower weight followed catastrophic Australian floods, a new study has found, as doctors raise concerns about the impact of climate change on pregnant women.
This time period included major storm events in Sydney during the summers of 2019 and 2020, where flooding destroyed homes on the city’s semi-rural fringe, blocked roads and left tens of thousands of people without power, as well as Brisbane’s historic 2011 flood. “Although there are many underlying causes for miscarriage and stillbirth, some unpreventable, the excess risk seen in association with certain environmental exposures can be seen as representing a denial of life to otherwise healthy children,” it wrote.
However, she queried whether it was fair to say the results found by the researchers reflected poor maternal care, even if that may be a problem facing pregnant women impacted by a natural disaster, such as a bushfire or flood.
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