“…Depression is prevalent during pregnancy, affecting 10% to 49% of women (Frisch & Riecher-Rossler, 2010; Orr, Blazer & James, 2006). Depressed women are more likely to deliver prematurely (Li, Liu, & Odouli, 2009; Mancuso, Schetter, Rini, Roesch & Hobel, 2004), and their neonates are more likely to have low birthweight (<2500 grams) (Field, Diego, Dieter, Hernandez-Reif, Schanberg, Kuhn et al, 2004; Grote, Bridge, Gavin, Melville, Iyengar, & Katon, 2010), with low birthweight being one of the leading causes of neonatal morbidity and mortality in the U.S. (MacDorman & Mathews, 2009; National Center for Health Statistics, 2006).…”