“…A growing literature reveals individual differences in maternal experiences regulate infant behavior and biology (Ostlund, Measelle, Laurent, Conradt, & Ablow, ). Specifically, prenatal stress, anxiety, and mood disturbances (e.g., depression) are associated with child outcomes such as low infant birth weight and preterm birth (Dunkel Schetter, ), aberrations in neurodevelopment (van den Bergh et al, ), behavioral and emotional problems (Bush et al, ; MacKinnon, Kingsbury, Mahedy, Evans, & Colman, ; Nolvi et al, ), and poor cognitive development (Bergman, Sarkar, O'Connor, Modi, & Glover, ; Schechter et al, ). Alterations to the in utero environment can even have long‐term implications for the child's behavior and physiology (Hocher, ; Rakers et al, ).…”