Table 1.

Descriptive statistics for individual maternal stressor variables.

Parameter	During drought pregnancies	During same-sex sibling control pregnancy	P-valuea
‘Lifetime maternal trauma,’ number of lifetime traumatic events prior to the pregnancy, range = 0 to 4 events per woman	0.721 ± 0.864	0.954 ± 0.994	<0.01*
Culturally-specific stressors identified by women as very stressful during pregnancy
Forced to work too hard by husband or male kin	13/104 (12.5%)	9/109 (8.3%)	0.34
Denied food by husband or male kin	12/104 (11.5%)	13/109 (11.9%)	1

^aPaired t-test for continuous stressors; McNemar’s test for dichotomous (yes/no) variables.