It has been found that any infection that a mother during pregnancy is likely to affect the child and cause unwanted effects. Some of them are:

The child of a pregnant women who contracts influenza in the first trimester of pregnancy is 7 times more likely to develop schizophrenia.

• Correlation between late winter/early spring babies and increase in development of schizophrenia.

• If mother and the child have incompatible blood types, it increases the risk of developing this disorder

• If mother develops diabetes or if the baby has low birth weight, the baby is more likely to develop schizophrenia

• Even low oxygen to the baby due to birth complications can increase the risk of developing schizophrenia.