And so I would just say, remind yourself of that, that he knows, he sees, he's provided, he's in control, he has you under his wings.

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So I know one of the questions I have wondered, as my wife has

gone through five pregnancies, is what is the impact of stress when you are pregnant? Does it

impact the baby? And so this is something that a lot of our listeners and a lot of you guys

are dealing with trying to figure out how do you support your wife when she's

pregnant? And there was a study done and published in the British Journal of Psychiatry. And let me

read to you guys what it was findings. The headline is stress and pregnancy makes child

personality disorder more likely. Okay. here's another thing to worry about.

But anyway, we'll talk about how to handle this. But the study found prolonged high levels

of stress during pregnancy could have a potentially long-lasting effect on children.

Children exposed to severe maternal stress were 9.53 times more likely to develop a personality disorder than those

whose mother experienced no stress. Those exposed to moderate stress had four times the chances.

This could be stress related to relationship problems, societal factors, psychological problems,

for example. So one of the things that we really want

to encourage you guys to keep in mind, we've talked a little bit about this, is that in Genesis

3, it really makes clear that a lot of the stress for provision really falls on the father,

especially because when it really delineates sort of these two responsibilities after the fall, provision

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