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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Maternal Health

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  • Prenatal stress exposure shows heterogeneous effects on child neurodevelopment.
  • Maternal psychosocial experiences are increasingly recognized as critical factors.
  • Lifespan and topological frameworks inform the study of adversity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review recent findings on stress-related programming of brain development in utero.
  • To emphasize the role of mothers' broader psychosocial experiences.
  • To identify key experiential categories shaping stress's influence.

Main Methods:

  • Review of meta-analyses of observational studies on prenatal stress.
  • Conceptualization of individual variation in maternal lived experience.
  • Structured discussion of experiential categories influencing fetal programming.

Main Results:

  • Effects of prenatal stress on neurodevelopment are inconsistent across studies.
  • Maternal socioeconomic resources, chronic/traumatic stressors, culture, and historical trauma are key factors.
  • Individual maternal experiences mediate the impact of prenatal stress.

Conclusions:

  • Maternal lived experiences are central to understanding heterogeneous effects of prenatal stress.
  • Further research should explore specific experiential categories and their biological/psychological impacts.
  • Identifying next steps is essential for advancing the field of fetal programming.