Foreword.- Early growth and later health: findings from the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study by Johan G. Eriksson.- Male and female placentas have divergent transcriptomic and epigenomic responses to maternal diets: not just hormones by Anne Gabory, Alexandre Vigé, Jean Lesage, Isabelle Fajardy, Laure Ferry, Linda Attig, Anne Vambergue, Didier Vieau, Jean-Philippe Jais, Luc Jouneau, and Claudine Junien.- Glucocorticoids and fetal programming; necessary and sufficient? By Jonathan R. Seckl.- Developmental programming and the placenta: focusing in on glucocorticoids by Caitlin S. Wyrwoll.- Maternal stress and in utero programming by Louise C. Kenny, Claire Everard and Ali S. Khashan.- Developmental epigenetics and risks of later non-communicable disease by M.A. Hanson, P.D. Gluckman and K.M. Godfrey.- Human fetal growth disorders and imprinting anomalies by C. Gicquel, S. Azzi, S. Rossignol, J. Demars, F. Brioude, I. Netchine, and Y. Le Bouc.- Epigenetic effects of extreme intrauterine growth in humans by John M. Greally.- The Role of the Placenta in Fetal Programming by John Challis, Debora Sloboda, Shaofu Li, Thorsten Braun, Frank Bloomfield, Ghazala Begum, Anne White, Felice Petraglia, John Newnham.- Developmental Origins of Diabetes: The Role of Epigenetics by Rebecca A. Simmons.- Glucocorticoids, programming and the transmission of effects across generations by Amanda J. Drake.- Subject index.