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Handbook of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology: Integrating Research and Practice
Editors: Klaus Evertz, Ludwig Janus, Rupert Linder
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41716-1
Publisher
Springer Cham
2020
Second link is pretty dated and I wonder if more recent studies back this finding.