Significant age-specific mean score decreases seen in communication, problem-solving, personal-score domains from prepandemic to intrapandemic
COVID-19 Vaccination in Pregnancy Safe for Infant Neurodevelopment
No difference seen for abnormal Ages and Stages Questionnaire screens for offspring at 12 or 18 months of age
Maternal Psychosocial Stress, COVID-19 Infection Tied to Infant Attentional Processing
Findings revealed lower infant attention scores at six months, which predicted socioemotional function, neurodevelopmental risk
Exposure to COVID-19 Pandemic Linked to Delayed Development at Age 5
Parental depression amplified association between pandemic and delayed development
Pandemic Babies May Face Communication Impairment
But overall neurodevelopment not changed by the COVID-19 pandemic
Babies Born During Pandemic May Have Early Social Communication Deficits
Deficits seen in having a definite meaningful word, pointing, and waving goodbye
In Utero SARS-CoV-2 Exposure Tied to Neurodevelopmental Sequelae
Maternal SARS-CoV-2 positivity during pregnancy linked to greater rate of neurodevelopmental diagnoses in offspring within first year of life
Antibodies Persist for Infants Born to COVID-19-Vaccinated Moms
Anti-spike antibody levels lower in infants born to mothers who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 at 20 to 32 weeks of gestation
Birth During COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts Infant Neurodevelopment
However, in utero exposure to maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection is not associated with significant differences in ASQ-3 domains at 6 months