Five environmental influences that promote a healthy prenatal development is: Age,
Diet/Nutrition, Emotional State/Stress, and Paternal Factors. Age promotes healthy development because if the woman is older the risk that a child will have Down Syndrome increases and the rate of low birth weight, preterm delivery and fetal death. However if they were born to a mother 16 to 34 years of age Down Syndrome is rare. Diet/Nutrition is important to prenatal development because the status of the fetus is determined by the mother’s total caloric intake (83). One aspect of nutrition that is important for prenatal development is folic acid and B-complex vitamin(Branum & others, 2013; Kancherla, Oakley, & Brent, 2014). Without these supplements, the pregnancy
Diet/Nutrition, Emotional State/Stress, and Paternal Factors. Age promotes healthy development because if the woman is older the risk that a child will have Down Syndrome increases and the rate of low birth weight, preterm delivery and fetal death. However if they were born to a mother 16 to 34 years of age Down Syndrome is rare. Diet/Nutrition is important to prenatal development because the status of the fetus is determined by the mother’s total caloric intake (83). One aspect of nutrition that is important for prenatal development is folic acid and B-complex vitamin(Branum & others, 2013; Kancherla, Oakley, & Brent, 2014). Without these supplements, the pregnancy