13 Jul 2017 --- Vitamin D deficiency in expectant mothers can negatively affect the social development and motor skills of pre-school age children, a new study in the British Journal of Nutrition reports. Examining data gathered from over 7,000 mother-child pairs, researchers discovered that pregnant women who were deficient in vitamin D were more likely to have children with low scores (bottom 25 percent) in pre-school development tests for gross and fine motor development at age two-and-a-half years than children of vitamin D sufficient mothers.
