According to a Danish study, pregnant women experiencing a high level of psychological stress may be at in increased risk for stillbirths.

Stillbirth is when a fetus that was expected to survive, dies during birth or in the last stages of pregnancy says, the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

A study conducted over a 10-year period suggests that while most women under high stress deliver healthy newborns, their stillbirth rates, compared to women with moderate to low stress rates were five percent compared to three percent.

LONDON (Reuters) - Pregnant women who eat nuts or nut products like peanut butter daily raise the risk their children will develop asthma by 50 percent, Dutch researchers said on Tuesday.

The study also showed that moderate amounts did not seem to have an effect, meaning it is too soon to say whether pregnant women should give up nuts because they contain many important nutrients and healthy fats a developing fetus needs, they said.

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Smoking marijuana while pregnant may harm the developing brain of a fetus, say researchers at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

In tests on mice, the researchers found that marijuana can affect molecules essential to a signaling process that plays a role in normal brain development. The researchers also found that certain prescription drugs, including some used to treat obesity, can have a similar effect, BBC News reported.

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