Sex seems to be an important variable at birth. As revealed by a study by researchers at the University of Adelaide (Australia) and published in the scientific journal Plos Journal, Giving birth to a child is related to more complications in childbirth.
The births of girls carry fewer risks than those of boys, and even more likely to survive during pregnancy, what scientists consider a female advantage in the battle for survival.
To find out if there were differences in childbirth, the researchers worked in collaboration with experts from the University of Groningen (Netherlands), based on data from more than 574,000 births in southern Australia between 1981 and 2011.
Pregnant mothers of children have a 4% higher risk of suffering from gestational diabetes, and 7.5% more suffering from full-term preeclampsia than pregnant mothers of girls. However, they are at a higher risk of suffering early onset preeclampsia with a higher risk of preterm birth.
For their part, the children were more likely to be born prematurely, with a 27 percent higher risk of being born between weeks 20 and 24 of gestation, 24 percent greater than being born between week 30 and 33 and 17 percent higher between week 34 and 36.
Less painful to give birth girls
Researchers at the University of Granada (UGR) and the San Cecilio Clinical Hospital contribute more data to the theory that childbirth is less complicated. They found that girls respond better to stress than boys in childbirth.
They realized that mothers who give birth to girls not only experience a lower inflammatory process during childbirth but also have a "greater antioxidant defense of the body", which would mean less pain during childbirth.
Every birth is a world
Surely there will be women who have had complications in the delivery of their child, while in that of the child it has been all satisfactory, because of course This is not a universal rule, but it shows the radiography of a trend (A sample of almost 600 thousand births is a sufficiently large sample). What it is clear that every pregnancy and every birth is a world.
