uring pregnancy may have a serious impact on the fetus leading to difficulties for newborns.
             The second factor focuses on the behaviors of depressed mothers. Depression can involve inadequate health care and health behavior risks. Thus, depressed pregnant women are likely to receive and obtain adequate prenatal care, as well as engage in less unhealthy sleeping and eating patterns. These depressed women are also more likely to smoke during pregnancy. These behaviors together increase the risk of abnormal development in the fetus. Studies show that depressed women who have abnormal neuroendocrine functioning during pregnancy have an increased chance for relatively slow growth and not much movement from the fetus.
             For a child to develop normally, they need external support in developing an accurate understanding of social and emotional situations. Parental support must include providing the child with emotional verbiage and socialization. The parents must guide the behaviors of toddlers in social situations, which contributor to the children's relationships with their peers and adults. Through external verbal support in extracurricular activities, the par
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