The researchers believe that babies born may be less intellectually inferior if mothers are exposed to pesticides in the first few months of pregnancy. They believe that shortly after a woman becomes pregnant, the embryonic brain begins to develop
Previous studies have found that more exposure to pesticides can lead to problems with the thyroid gland in pregnant women, whose thyroid condition can affect the intellectual development of the fetus
the early stages of pregnancy are a critical period for the development of the baby's brain, and exposure to pesticides may alter the environment around the developing embryos in the pregnant woman's body and the brain.