Black American women experience disproportionally higher levels of pregnancy and birth complications than other racial and ethnic minority groups (MacDorman & Mathews, 2011). Substantial literature supports the hypothesis that prenatal stress exposure leads to health problems during pregnancy, which, in turn, increase the risk for birth complications (
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