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Re:Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during... by bananaface on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @04:38AM (#23905270)
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.
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Re:Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during... by emn13 on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @06:50AM (#23905828)
Exactly; stress isn't one clearly defined thing, and the forms do matter: therefore the focus on overall stress isn't that useful.
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Re:Hospitals see significant drop in premature births during... by bananaface on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:18AM (#23905967)
It's worse than that: "it's stress" is a lexical tautology. By definition anything that causes a miscarriage was a stressor.
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