Smoking Or Drinking During Pregnancy Can Make Your Baby GAY, Claims Professor

 Study claims that decisions made by women when they are pregnant can affect their babies brains determining their sexuality, intelligence and chances of developing autism
A controversial new study claims that decisions made by women when they are pregnant can affect their babies brains including determining their sexuality, intelligence and chances of developing autism. 
The suggestion that the lifestyle of an expectant mother can affect their offspring's development has  been put forward in Professor Dick Swaab's new book We Are Our Brains. 


The professor of  neurology at Amsterdam University claims that the chance of having a child who is gay can be determined by a range of factors including how stressed pregnant women are as well as whether they smoke and their exposure to amphetamines.
'Pre-birth exposure to both nicotine and amphetamines increases the chance of lesbian daughters,' said Swaab. 

'Pregnant women suffering from stress are also more likely to have homosexual children of both genders because their raised level of the stress hormone cortisol affects the production of foetal sex hormones,' Swaab said reported   The Sunday Times
The development of the brain is such a delicate process during pregnancy that Swaab believes any small changes can have a major impact on a person's life. 

A key example of this was in a study which found that women who took the synthetic estrogen DES when pregnant were more likely to have daughters with bisexual or homosexual tendencies. 
The drug was widely prescribed to pregnant women as an anti-miscarriage drug for more than 20 years and researchers found that eight of the 117 DES daughters studied had bisexual or homosexual tendencies, while none did in a carefully selected 117-woman control group.
Some traits are dictated by nature
The professor neurology at Amsterdam University claims that the chance of having a child who is gay can be determined by a range of factors including how stressed pregnant women are as well as whether they smoke and their exposure to amphetamines