Investigating the Associations between Prenatal Maternal Sleep, and Maternal and Fetal Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal (HPA) Axis Physiology
Results from the first study revealed that higher perceived stress, but not cortisol or cortisol-cortisone ratio, is associated with more sleep problems and shorter sleep duration across pregnancy, and results from the second show that prenatal maternal sleep does not significantly predict neonatal hair cortisol levels...