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• As scholars who study prenatal and postnatal stress, maternal nutrition and the brain development of children, we can tell you the pandemic has dramatically changed the pregnancy experience.

• After a brief stay in the home of her father and stepmother, Stewart had moved in with her maternal uncle, Steve Blake, and his wife, Laura, who was a schoolteacher.

• Female cubs that reach adulthood can grow a maternal line, which helps boost that family group’s rank.

• My maternal grandfather was a house painter, and his dad before him, and his dad before him, and so on, going back before the Civil War.

• And, Golding’s team showed, kids whose maternal grandmothers smoked while pregnant were slightly more likely to have autism than were kids whose maternal grandmothers didn’t smoke.

• Advanced maternal age dramatically increases the risk of maternal mortality as well as birth defects like Down Syndrome.

• Genes passed down through the maternal side, though, were found to be a “perfect mitochondrial match.”

• Some women who want to be mothers and have maternal love to give should have the ability to do just that.

• There were rising export numbers, education programs, and maternal health efforts.

• How her role became more “maternal rather than marital,” and branding Hawking an “all-powerful emperor” and “masterly puppeteer.”