{"id":2033,"date":"2021-06-03T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/?page_id=2033"},"modified":"2022-10-17T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T19:09:49","slug":"early-life-factors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/publications\/early-life-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Life Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Publications under \u2018Early Life Factors\u2019 examine the association of childhood factors of individuals with their own fertility and reproductive outcomes.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/24736472\/\">Wildenschild C, Riis AH, Ehrenstein V, Heitmann BL, Hatch EE, Wise LA, Rothman KJ, S\u00f8rensen HT, Mikkelsen EM. Weight at birth and subsequent fecundability: a prospective cohort study. <em>PLoS One<\/em> 2014; 9(4): e95257.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s weight when they were born was not associated with their fecundability as adults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/25678570\/\">Wildenschild C, Riis AH, Ehrenstein V, Hatch EE, Wise LA, Rothman KJ, S\u00f8rensen HT, Mikkelsen EM. A prospective cohort study of a woman\u2019s own gestational age and her fecundability. <em>Hum Reprod<\/em> 2015; 30(4): 947-56.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women who were born very early (&lt;34 gestational weeks) had decreased fecundability compared with women who were born at 37-41 gestational weeks. Women who were born at 34-36 gestational weeks had similar fecundability with women who were born at 37-41 gestational weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8213449\/\">Basso O, Willis SK, Hatch EE, Mikkelsen EM, Rothman KJ, Wise LA. Maternal age at birth and daughter&#8217;s fecundability. Hum Reprod. 2021;36(7):1970-1980. doi:10.1093\/humrep\/deab057<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Investigators found that participants whose mothers gave birth to them at ages \u226535 years did not have lower fecundability, which is reassuring considering the trend towards delayed childbirth in North America. However, having been born to a young mother (aged &lt;20 years) was associated with lower fecundability among pregnancy planners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publications under \u2018Early Life Factors\u2019 examine the association of childhood factors of individuals with their own fertility and reproductive outcomes.\u00a0 Wildenschild C, Riis AH, Ehrenstein V, Heitmann BL, Hatch EE, Wise LA, Rothman KJ, S\u00f8rensen HT, Mikkelsen EM. Weight at birth and subsequent fecundability: a prospective cohort study. PLoS One 2014; 9(4): e95257. Women\u2019s weight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19308,"featured_media":0,"parent":158,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2033\/revisions\/2190"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/presto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}