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Prenatal stress keeps infants, toddlers up at night, study says

Anxious or depressed mothers-to-be are at increased risk of having children who will experience sleep problems in infancy and toddlerhood, finds a study that published this month in Early Human Development. The study tracked 14,000 pregnant women (and an index child) living in Avon, England and found that women classified as "mood disturbed" during their pregnancies were 40 percent more likely to have a child with significant trouble sleeping.

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