Table 2.
Cortisol analysis. Means and standard error (SE) for maternal daytime and awakening cortisol level aggregated as area under the curve with respect to ground (AUCG), and for infant salivary cortisol levels 30min after awakening, presented for each sampling day separately. Note that AUCG for the daytime refers to the integration of all samples over the day (around 13h), whereas the awakening refers to 1h period only.
| Day of sampling |
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Day two |
Day three |
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| Mean | SE | Mean | SE | Mean | SE | |
| Mother | ||||||
| Daytime cortisol level (AUCG, nmolmin/1) | 3386.08 | 194.06 | 3270.00 | 151.64 | 3178.57 | 176.52 |
| Awakening cortisol level (AUCG, nmolmin/1) | 610.00 | 31.69 | 600.68 | 24.13 | 595.79 | 33.56 |
| Infant | ||||||
| Cortisol level (nmol/1) | 12.53 | 1.80 | 7.91 | 1.17 | 8.80 | 1.17 |