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Sandman, Curt A., et al., ‘Elevated maternal cortisol early in pregnancy predicts third trimester levels of placental corticotropin releasing hormone (CRH): priming the placental clock’,
Peptides
, 27.6 (2006): 1457–63.

CHAPTER SEVEN: TRYING FOR A BABY

University of Oxford (August 2010), ‘Study suggests high stress levels may delay women getting pregnant’, retrieved from
www.ox.ac.uk
.

Galhardo, A., Cunha, M. and Pinto-Gouveia, J. (2013), ‘Mindfulness-based program for infertility: efficacy study’,
Fertility and Sterility
,
100
(4), 1059–67.

Carson, J. W., Carson, K. M., Gil, K. M. and Baucom, D. H. (2004), ‘Mindfulness-based relationship enhancement’,
Behavior Therapy
,
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(3), 471–94.

CHAPTER NINE: THE TRIMESTERS

‘Pregnancy brain’ discussed at the Society for Endocrinology BES annual conference.

Press release:
www.endocrinology.org/press/pressreleases/2010-03-18_Pregnancy%20Memory.pdf

CHAPTER TEN: RESPECTING THE BODY

Daubenmier, J., Kristeller, J., Hecht, F. M., Maninger, N., Kuwata, M., Jhaveri, K. and Epel, E. (2011), ‘Mindfulness intervention for stress eating to reduce cortisol and abdominal fat among overweight and obese women: an exploratory randomized controlled study’,
Journal of Obesity
, 2011.

CHAPTER ELEVEN: MOVING THROUGH THE PAIN

Zeidan, F., Martucci, K. T., Kraft, R. A., Gordon, N. S., McHaffie, J. G. and Coghill, R. C. (2011), ‘Brain mechanisms supporting the modulation of pain by mindfulness meditation’,
The Journal of Neuroscience
, 31(14), 5540–8.

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