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Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It could also be that they are sleeping more, which people will try and shoehorn into: "that's a form of stress!" Stress is a buzzword, I'm wary of manhandling the theory too much as counterpoints come up, especially if it involves playing with semantics.

Exactly; stress isn't one clearly defined thing, and the forms do matter: therefore the focus on overall stress isn't that useful.

It's worse than that: "it's stress" is a lexical tautology. By definition anything that causes a miscarriage was a stressor.

Re: Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during lockdown

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I was on pre term labour watch last year and spent 12 weeks on bed rest in hospital. While the drs never knew the reason for why I was at risk (body showed early labour signs) I felt it was likely stress related. Spending 3 months in bed with all my meals provided and my basic needs met enabled me to relax and get to term. Old school treatment but it proved to work. I'd say stress correlates directly to pre term births.
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