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Maternally Reported Fetal Activity Levels and Developmental Diagnoses

Sections on Developmental Pediatrics of the Departments of Pediatrics of New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Room 332, Cedarwood Hall, Westchester Institute for Human Development, Valhalla, New York 10595

Terry Tomazic, PhD

Department of Research Methodology of St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

Timothy Fete, MD

M. Susan Heaney, MD

Section of General Academic Pediatrics of the Department of Pediatrics of St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Ronald Lindsay, MD

Barbara Y. Whitman, PhD

St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

Retrospective maternal report of fetal activity level was compared with developmental diagnosis in 608 consecutively referred children. Maternal history of fetal activity level was also obtained from 140 unmatched well children in a general pediatric clinic. Fetal hyperactivity was positively associated with a diagnosis of child hyperactivity, and fetal hypoactivity was positively associated with a diagnosis of mental retardation in the children. Maternal histories of fetal activity level in the control group weakened the strength of the association between fetal hyperactivity and child hyperactivity but did not affect the association between fetal hypoactivity and mental retardation in children.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 36, No. 5, 279-283 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/000992289703600505


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