Can stress affect pregnancy

[Lottiebugz22]

I'm 28 weeks pregnant with my second and I'm extremely stressed due to various things in life lately. My baby is measuring just below average. This is very different to my daughter who was above average. I've not been well and had antibiotics during this pregnancy and caught allot of bugs. I'm worried my stress is affecting my pregnancy but the stress is unavoidable at the moment.

I honestly think it does.
I had a lot of stress in my 1st pregnancy. Had high blood pressure and she was the smallest of all ours, our twins were both much bigger and they were born 2 weeks early. I've not been stress free is subsequent pregnancies but much less than with the 1st.

I don't think it does, I was super chilled on my first and ended up with high BP and pre eclampsia. I was unbelievably stressed in my second after the trauma I endured on my first birth and the days after, he was absolutely fine, pregnancy was totally normal even though I was having multiple panic attacks every week.