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… pre-eclampsia … was found to be less common in women who had long-term sexual relations exclusively with the biological father, than in those who had been with their partner only for a short time …
… women who had undersized babies … were also more likely to have been in shorter relationships …
… “in normal pregnancies … prolonged exposure of the female immune system to paternal antigens following intercourse … [could induce] tolerance of the maternal immune system to the paternal antigens. But the exaggerated maternal inflammatory response in pre-eclampsia is due to a failure of the maternal immune system to down-regulate or tolerate its response to paternal antigens.” …
Melissa Maimann, Essential Birth Consulting 0400 418 448