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"Can stress during conception or pregnancy cause genetic mutation in a baby?
I’m sorry for the stupid question. But I’m at a very bad place at the moment and trying to figure out if I did anything wrong, even though if it is most probably just bad luck.
My baby (first child) was diagnosed with an extremely rare (de novo) genetic mutation, of which only few hundred people in history had been affected. The syndrome will affect him both physicall and mentally. We don’t know if he’ll be able to life independently in the future.
As the news has started to sink in, I started asking myself if we, the parents, have done anything wrong. We have been together for 13 years and barely fought. Yet the month we conceived the baby was our hardest time. Shouting at each other, perpetually fighting etc. We were both extremely stressful. That day, we had sex, not out of love, but because we had been trying for months. And came the baby. The ultrasounds detected short limbs yet we were totally ok with dwarfism, as what matters is mental health.
I know the question is absurd but I feel guilty. Did we do anything wrong? Did we cause the mutation?"
