Can illness or emotional stress in a pregnant woman damage the child? For the most part, doctors have tended to answer no, but now they are far less certain.
Item: countless pregnant women are subjected to outside emotional stresses, such as loss of husband by death or desertion, serious illness or death of a child, loss of income, housing problems. Item: many also suffer mysterious internal stresses apparently brought on by pregnancy, e.g., continued uterine bleeding or toxemia, an ill-defined, little-understood condition believed to be caused by unidentified poisons, often accompanied by high...
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