The unresolved mother-daughter relationship can literally cause miscarriages and stillbirths.

Evidence

Becoming a mother in turn, woman somehow takes the place of the one who gave birth to her: this means total emancipation for her. If she sincerely desires her pregnancy, it will be of utmost importance for her to carry it out without assistance; still dominated and consenting to it, she will put herself, on the contrary, in her mother’s hands: the newborn will seem like a brother or sister to her rather than her own offspring; if at the same time she wants and does not dare to liberate herself, she fears that the child, instead of saving her, will make her fall back under the yoke: this anguish can cause miscarriages; Deutsch cites the case of a young woman who, having to accompany her husband on a trip and leaving the child with her mother, gave birth to a stillborn child; she wondered why she had not mourned it more because she had ardently desired it; but she would have hated giving it over to her mother, who would have dominated her through this child. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1440

Categorization

• XREF: Psychological causation of physical outcomes echoes the mind-body entanglement Beauvoir develops elsewhere; connects to psychoanalytic readings like Helene Deutsch’s two-volume work on women. — connects to: A rejecting mother’s unresolved shadow can subconsciously sabotage a woman’s pregnancies. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1441

Broader Connections

• A rejecting mother’s unresolved shadow can subconsciously sabotage a woman’s pregnancies. #corroborates (0.95) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1441