London, July 27 (ANI): Children who were born after unplanned pregnancies have a limited vocabulary and poorer nonverbal and spatial abilities as compared to those who were conceived through infertility treatment, according to a new research.
IVF kids start school with speech skills up to eight months more advanced than their unplanned counterparts, reports the Telegraph.
Pupils whose parents did not intend to have a baby lagged five months behind planned babies at age five, when their vocabulary was tested, and a further three to four months behind those born after IVF, the study found.
In the report, Dr Claire Carson, a researcher at the University of Oxford's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, analysed data on 12,136 children included in the Millennium Cohort Study.
Using the standard British Ability Scales to test verbal ability at age five, the research found that the unplanned children had scores equivalent to a "developmental delay of more than five months" compared with planned ones.
In turn, the planned children lagged behind those born after IVF treatment by "three or four months".
Experts say that the findings are just down to the developmental gap between rich and poor in Britain.
"These differences are almost entirely explained by confounding by socioeconomic factors, providing further evidence of the influence of socioeconomic inequalities on the lives of children in the UK," they add.
The study has been published in the British Medical Journal. (ANI)
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