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Commission for the Protection of Privacy (registration number HM002002523), the Ethical Commission of
the Queen Fabiola Children’s University Hospital in Brussels (acting as the coordinating ethical commission
of the multicentre study; registration number CEH 21/14), and the ethical commissions of eight of the 31
participating maternities (the 23 other maternities considered the review and approval of the coordinating
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