Pregnancy and Prenatal Stress

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The Strength Model of Self-Control

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The Role of Inflammation and Infection in Preterm Birth

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Children's Brain Development Benefits from Longer Gestation

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Maternal Stress and Preterm Birth

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The Timing of Prenatal Exposure to Maternal Cortisol and Psychosocial Stress Is Associated With Human Infant Cognitive Development

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Fetal programming of coronary heart disease

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Psychological adaptation and birth outcomes: The role of personal resources, stress, and sociocultural context in pregnancy.

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Relationships between perceived stress and health behaviors in a sample of working adults

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Maternal cortisol over the course of pregnancy and subsequent child amygdala and hippocampus volumes and affective problems

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Prenatal exposure to maternal depression and cortisol influences infant temperament

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Group Prenatal Care and Perinatal Outcomes

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Pregnancy-specific stress, prenatal health behaviors, and birth outcomes.

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Is pregnancy anxiety a distinctive syndrome?

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Handbook of Health Psychology

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Maternal anxiety during pregnancy and adverse birth outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies.

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Preventing preterm births: analysis of trends and potential reductions with interventions in 39 countries with very high human development index

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Birthweight and the Risk for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Adult Women

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Stress, dietary restraint and food intake.

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When stress happens matters: Effects of earthquake timing on stress responsivity in pregnancy

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Prenatal maternal stress programs infant stress regulation

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Maternal plasma corticotropin-releasing hormone associated with stress at 20 weeks’ gestation in pregnancies ending in preterm delivery

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Birth weight and cognitive function in the British 1946 birth cohort: longitudinal population based study

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Perceived partner support in pregnancy predicts lower maternal and infant distress.

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Stress Pathways to Spontaneous Preterm Birth: The Role of Stressors, Psychological Distress, and Stress Hormones

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Prenatal maternal stress and prematurity: A prospective study of socioeconomically disadvantaged women.

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Maternal Social Support Predicts Birth Weight and Fetal Growth in Human Pregnancy

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Effect of neighbourhood income and maternal education on birth outcomes: a population-based study

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Self-Reported Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Black–White Differences in Preterm and Low-Birthweight Deliveries: The CARDIA Study

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Explaining Disproportionately High Rates of Adverse Birth Outcomes Among African Americans: The Impact of Stress, Racism, and Related Factors in Pregnancy.

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Coping and distress in pregnancy: An investigation of medically high risk women

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A pilot cohort analytic study of Family Integrated Care in a Canadian neonatal intensive care unit

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Pregnancy and Domestic Violence

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Is Biology Destiny? Birth Weight and Life Chances

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Racial differences in birth outcomes: the role of general, pregnancy, and racism stress

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Close relationship processes and health: Implications of attachment theory for health and disease.

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Maternal Exposure to Domestic Violence and Pregnancy and Birth Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses

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Mechanisms underlying the effects of prenatal psychosocial stress on child outcomes: beyond the HPA axis

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Prenatal Depression and Adverse Birth Outcomes: An Updated Systematic Review

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Prenatal maternal anxiety and depression predict negative behavioral reactivity in infancy

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Prenatal Psychosocial Factors and the Neuroendocrine Axis in Human Pregnancy

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Resilience in the Context of Chronic Stress and Health in Adults

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Influence of variation in birth weight within normal range and within sibships on IQ at age 7 years: cohort study

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Neighborhood Support and the Birth Weight of Urban Infants

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Prenatal Stress-Induced Increases in Placental Inflammation and Offspring Hyperactivity Are Male-Specific and Ameliorated by Maternal Antiinflammatory Treatment

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Coping during pregnancy: a systematic review and recommendations

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Psychosocial stress in pregnancy and preterm birth: associations and mechanisms

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Familialism, social support, and stress: Positive implications for pregnant Latinas.

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Explaining racial disparities in adverse birth outcomes: Unique sources of stress for Black American women

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“It’s the skin you’re in”: African-American women talk about their experiences of racism. An exploratory study to develop measures of racism for birth outcome studies

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The impact of prenatal maternal stress and optimistic disposition on birth outcomes in medically high-risk women.

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Chronic Stress and Low Birth Weight Neonates in a Low-Income Population of Women

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Effective social support: Antecedents and consequences of partner support during pregnancy

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Conceptualizations, measurement, and effects of prenatal maternal stress on birth outcomes

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Poor Sleep Quality is Associated with Preterm Birth

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The occurrence of preterm delivery is linked to pregnancy-specific distress and elevated inflammatory markers across gestation

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Psychosocial sequelae of cesarean delivery: review and analysis of their causes and implications.

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Prenatal stress, gestational age and secondary sex ratio: the sex-specific effects of exposure to a natural disaster in early pregnancy

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Psychosocial Factors and Preterm Birth Among African American and White Women in Central North Carolina

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Maternal Stress, HPA Activity, and Fetal/Infant Outcomea

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Impact of biomass fuels on pregnancy outcomes in central East India

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The Effects of the World Trade Center Event on Birth Outcomes among Term Deliveries at Three Lower Manhattan Hospitals

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Randomised controlled pilot trial of mindfulness training for stress reduction during pregnancy

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Maternal stress and affect influence fetal neurobehavioral development

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Timing of Prenatal Maternal Exposure to Severe Life Events and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Population Study of 2.6 Million Pregnancies

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Challenges in defining and classifying the preterm birth syndrome

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Exposure to Hurricane Katrina, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and Birth Outcomes

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Race and gender matter: A multidimensional approach to conceptualizing and measuring stress in African American women.

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How to Measure Prenatal Stress? A Systematic Review of Psychometric Instruments to Assess Psychosocial Stress during Pregnancy

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A review and psychometric evaluation of pregnancy-specific stress measures

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