poor post-birth environment, where resources are predicted to be scarce and/or negative postnatal exposures to be frequent and abundant. Maternal forecasts which do not accurately predict the post-birth environment have been hypothesized to lead to negative consequences for the health of the child over its life course – such as increased risk for metabolic diseases and decreased cognitive functioning in offspring which had been given a poor maternal forecast but were born into a rich environment (Argente, et al., 2010; Barker & Clark, 1997; de Rooij, et al., 2010; Hochberg et al., 2010).
