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Published online 21 January 1999 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news990121-5

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Mums-to-be should chill out

Most societies have at least a folk-wisdom notion that a mother's psychological state can influence her unborn child. And indeed there is increasing evidence to show that it can.

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