A baby's term and birth weight is being increasingly linked to the quality of a woman's uterus, according to recent research in the Fertility and Sterility Journal.
Previous research has indicated that babies born by in vitro fertilization arrived earlier and weighed less -- but now research says the quality of the woman's uterus could be the stronger indicator of the quality of the baby's birth.
"It's not that egg quality is irrelevant -- far from it," stated Time Magazine, citing findings from the Fertility and Sterility study. "Whether or not a woman can even get pregnant in the first place is very much linked to the quality of her eggs. But once a pregnancy is established, the focus shifts to obstetrical outcomes."
"Babies born to women with a history of uterine problems -- fibroids, for example -- had the lowest birth weights and length of gestation," noted the Time article.
