Prenatal maternal stress: A knowledge-translated review of associated mechanisms, sources, and outcomes
October 2, 2018•12,904 words
Extant policies and regulations inadequately address the unique and complex needs, vulnerabilities, and risks at the intersection of maternal and child health (Leiss & Kotch, 2010). Stress experienced by a pregnant mother, or prenatal maternal stress (PNMS), has attracted especial scrutiny within the field. Modern evidence emphatically concurs that the long-term disease, developmental, and other trajectories of gestating fetuses are significantly programmed by the intrauterine environment, a...
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