Healthy, full-term babies use a different stress hormone than their mother

Monday, June 17, 2013 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

New research has identified how a steroid hormone may indicate infant distress during labor and delivery. The study suggests that a full-term, healthy baby preferentially secretes a different stress hormone than its mother does.

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