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Pregnant mothers' stress during floods can disadvantage their babies, but it's not inevitable. Here's what we can do right now

  • Written by Katrina Moss, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in maternal and child health, The University of Queensland

New South Wales and Queensland are in the grip of a major flood crisis. Homes have been swept away, businesses inundated, and thousands evacuated.

Natural disasters like this are devastating, and in the rescue and recovery efforts it’s important to protect a particularly vulnerable group: pregnant mothers and their unborn babies.

When the...

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