2.) Nine months
A correlation between higher fish consumption during pregnancy and brain benefits for kids as well as a reduction in autism-spectrum traits was uncovered by researchers for this study, which was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
According to the study’s abstract: “Seafood consumption during pregnancy is thought to be beneficial for child neuropsychological development, but to our knowledge no large cohort studies with high fatty fish consumption have analyzed the association by seafood subtype. We evaluated 1,892 and 1,589 mother-child pairs at the ages of 14 months and 5 years, respectively, in a population-based Spanish birth cohort established during 2004–2008.”
The scientific team referenced the Bayley and McCarthy scales and the Childhood Asperger Syndrome Test to evaluate neuropsychological development.
“Consumption of large fatty fish during pregnancy presents moderate child neuropsychological benefits, including improvements in cognitive functioning and some protection from autism-spectrum traits,” researchers concluded.
Read more about this study here: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/01/05/aje.kwv195.abstract
