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I have the biggest question that no one will answer completely or exactly. What is worst drugs, alcohol, or stress? Woman's Health Care Topics indicated that stress is not healthy for anyone but especially for pregnant women because "Very high levels of stress may contribute to an increased risk of premature delivery or low birth weight babies. Still other studies suggest that overly high stress levels can increase your heart rate, blood pressure and produce chronic anxiety"(Woman's Health Care Topics).  Stress also plays an big affect in your emotional well being. When your emotional well being is off it is not good for the baby because your mentally not healthy. with stress comes illnesses, depression, strains, miscarriages, and pre-term birth (Baby Hopes). Stress's affects vary on how you perceive things but stress always has a sign. There is something called cognitive symptoms and those symptoms include:

• Memory problems
• Inability to concentrate
• Poor judgment
• Seeing only the negative
• Anxious or racing thoughts
• Constant worrying

There is also another sign of stress and its when it affects you behaviors, those symptoms include any of the following:

• Eating more or less
• Sleeping too much or too little
• Isolating yourself from others
• Procrastinating or neglecting responsibilities
• Using alcohol, cigarettes, or drugs to relax
• Nervous habits (e.g. nail biting, pacing)

All of these symptoms would affect the fetus in a negative manner (Help Guide). Stress leads to other detrimental things; so does that make stress the superior over drugs and alcohol?