When a baby is born, he/she usually has half of the genes from the mother and half from the father that make up different parts of its body. However, there are those genes that can only be passed to the baby from the mother. Here are things babies inherit from their mothers:
1. Baldness
Baldness is inherited from mothers. This is a gene gotten from the X chromosome, which is inherited from the mother. The length of your hair also depends on your mother’s hair.
2. Color blindness
Mothers pass color blindness to their sons. A baby will have a 50/50 of getting these genes if its mother is a carrier of the color blindness gene.
3. Intelligence
Mothers pass down their intelligence gene to their babies. This is because moms have two X chromosomes responsible for determining intelligence while fathers have one. Mothers will have a higher chance of passing their intelligence gene to their babies.
4. Stress
A research done on pregnant women in Canada revealed that when a woman is stressed during pregnancy, her baby will feel it. This will affect the baby’s cognitive abilities, intelligence and language, which are signs that the baby is stressed.
5. Certain health issues
There are certain health issues mothers pass to their babies. A baby will get the type 2 diabetes if its mother has this gene. More so, a mother can also pass the Maturity Onset Diabetes in the Young (MODY).