Is pregnancy in zero-g a barrier to long term space living?

I'd like to have a community of humans live indefinitely in space habitats (think space stations supporting mining operations in the asteroid belt).

The technology would be "day after tomorrow"-level; no anti-gravity, no effector fields, or the like.

So, my problem is that I'd like to have happy space families, but I've read that long-term zero-G living is dangerous and bad for many physical systems, especially bones. The big question is whether a child can successfully be brought to term in zero gravity.

Will the children be able to be born? As a possible mitigation, we could spin the habitats, but I'm not sure if that will be "good enough" to substitute for gravity, nor whether current construction methods will be able to hold up under relentless spinning.

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