Question by Nala: How could a stall in human gestational development affect the resultant human later in life?
Is there any research regarding the affects of a stall in gestational development and the development of the brain?

My personal interest in this subject: Towards the end of the first trimester of my development, my mother’s Obstetrician noted that gestational-me had stopped developing. The doctor told my mom that I was stressed and prescribed that she maintain bed-rest for the remainder of her pregnancy. I was born after 43 weeks and 4 days of gestation, as the Obstetrician elected not to induce based on the possibility that gestational me was “still cooking.” Although my life has had some exceptional stressors, as gauged by outsiders, I feel that my reaction to stressors can be extreme. Also, I feel that some of the more defining “traumas” of my life are rarely cause the damage that they have in me, indicating to me that I am very sensitive to stress.

I’ve found research that correlates maternal stress with increased risk for general mental health issues, but my mom maintains that she was happy and decently unstressed in the weeks/months preceding the detection of my gestational delay. I often wonder if the delay and then subsequent continued development of my gestation could have affected the way my brain was developed, as if maybe something things could be “wired out of order,” or not allowing proper development of my amygdala?

I know that neuroscience/neuropsychiatry is just now reaching a renaissance, but I’m an undergrad science major (with decent access to scientific journals through membership with my university) and have waded my way through a lot of scientific literature in the pursuit of my Bachelor’s and I was hoping someone here could direct me towards some research on the topic.
In kindergarten, i was dog-earred by my teacher to be tested for the gifted and talented track, along with other students. However, I was regularly late to school, which somehow that disqualified me from entry into the program. By 2nd grade, I was so immersed in my own stressors and fantasy world that my 3rd grade assignment was with a class of mostly learning-disabled peers. Luckily, that was also the year that standardized testing was mandated by the state and I performed in the top percentiles for my grade level, which reset the school’s view of me. I was never able to learn to add, substrate, multiply, divide, ect in my head or even store the times tables in my long term memory. I have gotten better with repeated (i.e. 15 years) exposure, but I still blank out regularly. I also only started being able to reliably and quickly read time from an analog clock in the past few years, despite being surrounded by them growing up. The memory related to the tasks I’m performing is ve

Best answer:

Answer by Carie Cares
It appears that you know approximately when during gestational-you began to stop developing – I would say research the stages of fetal development from the fertilization of the egg, the implanting of the egg within the uteran wall and so-on and so-forth and find-out exactly what stage of development gestational you were at when this supposedly occurred…

I would also find-out if you can get a hold of the medical records to get more specifics in regards to what went on. I would do this on my own and leave my mother out of it, not letting her know what I was doing either – that way there’s no uncomfortableness between you. As a parent I could see where withholding information from my child could happen. Is not something I will do – but you may not be getting accurate information from your parent(s) in regards to what had happened… parents are funny that way.

Or get to your own dr. talk to the dr. about all of this – get a CT scan if you are worried about brain development and feel you are having serious issues, are you having learning issues, walking issues, speech issues, severe emotional issues, violence, outbursts???

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