Retraction to: Journal of Perinatology (2023) 43:930-935 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41372-023-01641-4, published 13 March 2023

The Editor-in-Chief retracted this article because the authors failed to obtain permission to use and modify the copyrighted tool, WAT-1 in this study. The authors have been offered to submit a revised manuscript after taking proper permission and validation of their data, where it will be subject to conventional peer review.

Gonca Bektas, Taylor Soderborg, Cheryl Slater, Joel Agarwal, Trystan Hogan, Martha M. Werler & Elisha M. Wachman agree to this retraction; Michelle Racioppi has not responded to any correspondence from the publisher about this retraction.