You may be wondering why evolution would provide such a system for fetal development that seems so fraught with peril and is so dependent on the environment of the parents. Actually, it’s an ingenious system that helps ensure the survival of your offspring. Eventually, when the child is born, it is going to find itself in the same environment as its parents. Information, in the form of regulatory hormones and emotional chemicals derived from the mother’s perception of her environment, transits the placenta and primes the prenate’s physiology, preparing it to more effectively deal with future
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