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Can a Mother’s Mental Health Impact a Baby in the Womb?

“Depression or stress or anxiety, this unpleasant, negative state in pregnancy … has negative effects on the fetus and on the brain and perhaps on the whole epigenetic milieu of the fetus,” Katherine Wisner, associate chief of perinatal mental health at the Developing Brain Institute, tells Smithsonian magazine.
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