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Participants were 89 mothers from a larger longitudinal study on mother-infant stress regulation. Mothers completed self-report measures of dispositional mindfulness, life stress, anxiety, and depression at 3, 6, 12, and 18-months postpartum. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to assess the impact of mindfulness and life stress on both symptom trajectories and deviations from those trajectories over time. Absolute levels of maternal mindfulness predicted lower maternal depression symptoms at 18 months, and relative increases in mindfulness predicted concurrent decreases in both anxiety and depression symptoms over time. There was no evidence for moderated effects; rather, life stress related independently to anxiety and depression. 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Hierarchical linear modeling was used to assess the impact of mindfulness and life stress on both symptom trajectories and deviations from those trajectories over time. Absolute levels of maternal mindfulness predicted lower maternal depression symptoms at 18 months, and relative increases in mindfulness predicted concurrent decreases in both anxiety and depression symptoms over time. There was no evidence for moderated effects; rather, life stress related independently to anxiety and depression. 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