http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0511183103v1?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=pregnancy&searchid=1140733703105_9007&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=pnas

Cortisol levels and very early pregnancy loss in humans

( stress | miscarriage | placentation | fetomaternal conflict | evolutionary theory )

Pablo A. Nepomnaschy *{dagger}{ddagger}{sect}, Kathleen B. Welch ¶, Daniel S. McConnell {dagger}||, Bobbi S. Low {ddagger}, Beverly I. Strassmann *,**, and Barry G. England {dagger},{dagger}{dagger}

*Department of Anthropology, 1085 South University Avenue, {dagger}Reproductive Sciences Program, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, L4000 Women's Hospital, {ddagger}School of Natural Resources and Environment, 430 East University Street, ¶Center for Statistical Consultation and Research, 915 East Washington Street, ||Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, 109 Observatory Street, **Research Center for Group Dynamics, Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, and {dagger}{dagger}Department of Pathology, Medical Science I, 1301 Catherine Street, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Communicated by Richard D. Alexander, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, December 27, 2005 (received for review December 17, 2004)

Maternal stress is commonly cited as an important risk factor for spontaneous abortion. For humans, however, there is little physiological evidence linking miscarriage to stress. This lack of evidence may be attributable to a paucity of research on maternal stress during the earliest gestational stages. Most human studies have focused on "clinical" pregnancy (>6 weeks after the last menstrual period). The majority of miscarriages, however, occur earlier, within the first 3 weeks after conception ({approx}5 weeks after the last menstrual period). Studies focused on clinical pregnancy thus miss the most critical period for pregnancy continuance. We examined the association between miscarriage and levels of maternal urinary cortisol during the first 3 weeks after conception. Pregnancies characterized by increased maternal cortisol during this period (within participant analyses) were more likely to result in spontaneous abortion (P < 0.05). This evidence links increased levels in this stress marker with a higher risk of early pregnancy loss in humans.

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A horrific collision between continued discrimination against the Aborigine population and political correctness run amuck.

Given all the atrocities visited upon the aborigines in the past, you would think the judiciary would know better.

If you're a woman, you can kill your husband with impunity. See Mary Winkler and a host of other "victims" for more.

If you're a male victim of domestic violence, ......well..... technically, you don't exist. More likely than not, you will be the one arrested when you call the police.

I'll let the more "enthusiastic" feminist bigots justify their violence with their own fictive victimology in the posts I am sure will follow.

Welcome to the Feminist Republic of America.

She didn't call the police beforehand. She just blew a hole in his spine with a shotgun at point blank range.

Apparently she's a "battered woman".

I wonder what her kids will think of her when they get older and learn the truth of what happened.

Judge Grants Winkler Supervised Visitation

Updated: Sep 20, 2007 08:22 AM

Judge Grants Winkler Supervised Visitation

Winkler Argues For Custody Of Daughters

Winkler's Custody Battle To Be Heard In Court

HUNTINGDON, Tenn. - Carroll County Chancellor Ron Harmon ruled Wednesday night that a woman who fatally shot her minister husband could have supervised visitation of their three daughters.

Although Mary Winkler was denied custody, she will be allowed to visit the girls ages 10, 8 and 2 under supervised conditions. She can also talk to them on the phone every other day.

Winkler is on probation after serving about seven months in jail for shooting Matthew Winkler.

The girls' grandparents Dan and Diane Winker, who live in Huntingdon, raised them since the March 2006 shooting. The Winklers want to adopt the girls.

The Winklers have filed a $2 million wrongful death suit against her.

"I long for the day Dan and Diane would sit down and talk with me and let us please work this out and get past the hurt and the horrible aching so we can began to heal," Mary Winkler said in court Wednesday. "Where we've let each other down, where we're both hurting terribly. We both miss Matthew terribly and that we can begin to heal together and let God guide us and help us get through this."

Mary Winkler's father Clark Freeman said the Winklers won't let him see the children. Mary Winkler said she has not had any contact with them, either.

Relatives said they're in the same boat.

Mary Winkler's supporters such as Kathy Thompson are helping her make a new home for herself.

"She's asked for forgiveness," Thompson said. "It's our duty. The Bible tells us, if we don't forgive others God won't forgive us. So we're just trying to pick up pieces and go on."

Winkler said the community has reached out to her, giving her everything from a five -bedroom home to live in for $150 to a car she's traded in for a sports utility vehicle.