prepartum

Updated: May 14, 2025

Not as poor as it could have been by any means, but certainly less than ideal. You see, the father has very little to do with the health of the child, unless he happens to carry some particularly undesirable gene. It is the mother who has the job of constructing the fetus out of prepartum nourishment and her own body's nutritional reserves.

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