Science writer Jena Pincott spent her pregnancy and postpartum months asking the questions that doctors don't answer, and finding answers that expectant mothers will not expect. In this curiosity-led exploration into the "hidden side" of pregnancy, learn how amniotic fluid carries flavours and genes can play favourites, semen can be a foetus's friend or foe, the brain shrinks then grows, and what mind-control chemicals are doing in breast milk, sweat, and tears.
Drawing on studies in evolutionary psychology, biology, social science, neuroscience, reproductive genetics, endocrinology, and epigenetics, the influence of environment on the behaviour of genes, Pincott explores questions such as:
* Why are your dreams more vivid.
* Why do skinny chicks have more daughters.
* Is the foetus tinkering with your brain.
* What does the baby's birth season predict about her personality.
* What do foetuses learn when they eavesdrop.
* Do boys really give you basketball bumps.
* Do fidgety foetuses become feisty babies.
* Where does maternal instinct come from.
* Does your stress sharpen your baby's mind -- or dull it.
* Can men breastfeed.
* Do mommies have better brains.
* How could Grandma's diet affect your child.
And could eating chocolate really make your baby sweeter.
Science writer Jena Pincott spent her pregnancy and postpartum months asking the questions that doctors don't answer, and finding answers that expectant mothers will not expect. In this curiosity-led exploration into the "hidden side" of pregnancy, learn how amniotic fluid carries flavours and genes can play favourites, semen can be a foetus's friend or foe, the brain shrinks then grows, and what mind-control chemicals are doing in breast milk, sweat, and tears.
Drawing on studies in evolutionary psychology, biology, social science, neuroscience, reproductive genetics, endocrinology, and epigenetics, the influence of environment on the behaviour of genes, Pincott explores questions such as:
* Why are your dreams more vivid.
* Why do skinny chicks have more daughters.
* Is the foetus tinkering with your brain.
* What does the baby's birth season predict about her personality.
* What do foetuses learn when they eavesdrop.
* Do boys really give you basketball bumps.
* Do fidgety foetuses become feisty babies.
* Where does maternal instinct come from.
* Does your stress sharpen your baby's mind -- or dull it.
* Can men breastfeed.
* Do mommies have better brains.
* How could Grandma's diet affect your child.
And could eating chocolate really make your baby sweeter.
Jena Pincott has a background in biology and was a production assistant on science documentaries for PBS. She is a former senior editor at Random House, and is the author of Success: Advice for Achieving Your Goals from Remarkably Accomplished People and Healing: Advice for Recovering Your Strength and Spirit from the World's Most Famous Survivors. Jena lives in New York City and plays the clarinet. She travels as much as she possibly can, usually with her husband, Peter, and writes science fiction under a pen name.
Jena's previous book, Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?, is
about the science of love and attraction. The book received a
"starred review" in Publishers Weekly and generated widespread
media attention, including appearances by the author on ABC's Good
Morning America, Fox News, CBS' The Early Show, NPR, and coverage
in Glamour, Redbook, Newsweek, the New York Post, the New York
Daily News, the Washington Post, and the Associated Press.
"Do Chocolate Lovers have Sweeter Babies is utterly fascinating ...
and a great read."
--Christiane Northrup, M.D., ob/gyn physician and author of the New
York Times bestsellers: Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom and The
Wisdom of Menopause
"Delightful! This book is destined to become everywoman's --and
man's --secret guide to pregnancy. A must read."
--Louann Brizendine, M.D. neuropsychiatrist author of The Female
Brain and The Male Brain
"Having delivered many babies in Africa and raised one of my own, I
was thrilled to find plenty of old-fashioned common sense suffusing
Pincott's survey of cutting-edge research. Casual, but never
careless, her light style is a fine complement to her balanced,
informed scholarship. Covering everything from martinis to Mozart,
Pincott's book is full of useful thinking that will inform and
comfort expectant mothers (and fathers) everywhere."
--Cacilda Jethá, M.D., co-author (with Christopher Ryan) of Sex at
Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
"In Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?, Jena Pincott takes us
on a fascinating tour through the science of pregnancy. She answers
questions, shares stories, and passes on insights gleaned from her
exhaustive research. Reading it is like having a friend--an
extraordinarily wise, funny, and well-informed friend--walk you
through the nine months before birth. Pincott tells you everything
you wanted to know about pregnancy but were afraid to ask."
--Annie Murphy Paul, author of Origins: How the Nine Months Before
Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives
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