B4109 - Childhood adverse events and breastfeeding associations with pregnancy behaviour and infant outcomes - 29/07/2022
Adverse childhood experiences have been associated with unfavorable health behaviours, somatic and psychological complaints in pregnancy. Beyond pregnancy experiences, a large body of research highlights intergenerational effects of maternal history of early trauma on their offspring. Given the growing interest on early adversity consequences during the perinatal phase, we aim to examine the associations between traumatic childhood events and pregnancy health behaviour, psychological symptoms, birth outcomes, sociodemographics and breastfeeding. For this we intend to include mother-infant pairs from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. Adverse childhood events consist of abuse (e.g. emotional, physical and sexual), neglect, (e.g. emotional and physical) and household dysfunction (e.g. parental mental illness, divorce or incarceration). We measure pregnancy health behaviour (e.g. exercise, smoking, alcohol, BMI), psychological symptoms (e.g. anxiety and depressive symptoms), sociodemographics (e.g. education, social class) and breastfeeding (e.g.initiation and duration).