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Like mother, like child — keeping it in the family

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No branch of medicine, save family medicine, has the privilege of feeling a baby in utero, perhaps seeing the baby being born, caring for the baby during infancy, childhood and adolescence and, later, feeling in utero the next generation.

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Pollak, M., Fry, J. (1986). Like mother, like child — keeping it in the family. In: Commonsense Paediatrics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6367-5_26

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