During pregnancy women who get into depression could have premature births, so to prevent this there have been many treatments given. From Institute of Psychiatry in London, Veronica O’Keane and her colleagues have found out a link between clinical depression and levels of stress hormones and premature birth. They have found out that woman who are expecting and suffering from severe depression had higher levels of the stress hormones cortisol and corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) in their blood than healthy women. They even found out that pregnancies were shorter on average in the depressed women. Preterm delivery is the leading cause of infant illness and then death. As O’Keane says; Depression is a major cause of preterm birth, and over stimulation of stress hormones is at least one cause of this. Well, I am sure this research will help out all the expecting mums. Via: newscientist