Summary of Abigail Tucker's Mom Genes

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I was on duty as a watcher, supervising the fates of fourteen heavily pregnant ewes. The ewes were herd animals, and their offspring usually joined a large, confusing crowd of hundreds soon after being born.
#2 The sheep farm has transformed into a baby blizzard. The ewes are much thinner and less bloated, and their personalities have changed. They are now cranky and prefer to stand alone rather than side by side.
#3 The maternal instinct is a real thing, and it is up to each mother to find it and nurture it. It is a top-down process, with pregnancy and childbirth hormones changing not only our bodies but also our minds.
#4 I had never imagined being a mother, and I had little motherly intuition. I was a battle-tested matron who was bereft of both motherly wisdom and trendy tips pertaining to childbirth and children. I had to learn how to go to sleep, eat, and ride a bike with my kids.

Sujets

• Parenting
• Motherhood

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 12 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822507111
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Abigail Tucker's Mom Genes
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was on duty as a watcher, supervising the fates of fourteen heavily pregnant ewes. The ewes were herd animals, and their offspring usually joined a large, confusing crowd of hundreds soon after being born.

#2

The sheep farm has transformed into a baby blizzard. The ewes are much thinner and less bloated, and their personalities have changed. They are now cranky and prefer to stand alone rather than side by side.

#3

The maternal instinct is a real thing, and it is up to each mother to find it and nurture it. It is a top-down process, with pregnancy and childbirth hormones changing not only our bodies but also our minds.

#4

I had never imagined being a mother, and I had little motherly intuition. I was a battle-tested matron who was bereft of both motherly wisdom and trendy tips pertaining to childbirth and children. I had to learn how to go to sleep, eat, and ride a bike with my kids.

#5

The human mother is far from being an expert parent. In many ways, we lag behind other mammals in our capabilities. While never completely predictable, other mammals boast more of what scientists call fixed action patterns – innate and automatic mothering behaviors designed to get the job done.

#6

There are many mothering behaviors that vary between cultures, and even between individual mothers. Among them is left-handed cradling bias, which is the tendency for right-handed women to hold their babies on the left.

#7

The human maternal instinct is not limited to mothers, but is present in all humans. It is universal caregiving, and babies are a special place in the hearts of all men and women.

#8

The second birth of motherhood is a kind of neural renaissance that overhauls what women find rewarding. There is a paradigm shift in our experience of pleasure, a drug-like narrowing of desire.

#9

I was eventually induced, and when that didn’t work, I was given the birth stimulant Pitocin. The contractions began as ripples and quickly mounted to tidal waves. I tried to imagine myself as a surfer, but that didn’t work.

#10

The birth was a disaster. The baby’s heart rate decreased suddenly, like a stone ricocheting off the sides of a deep, deep well, each thud later than the last. The doctor rushed back in. But the heart rate steadied itself. I had never been so happy to achieve zero.

#11

The moment a mother sees her baby for the first time, it is as if her eyes are branded with the sight. It feels like her eyes are branded with the sight, as if she has been seeing the baby all along.

#12

Scientists have tested how much mothers love their babies by seeing what affects them the most. They have found that baby faces are extra-stimulating to mothers, and that infant emotions move them more profoundly than adult emotions.

#13

Motherhood is not a simple process of riding high on baby fumes. While all babies hold some sway over mothers, it is the infant’s own rule supreme.

#14

The brains of human moms are most sensitive to their own child, and this seems to be true across cultures. Looking back at my own three babies’ early pictures, I can now acknowledge that newborns look a lot alike, except for their unique character and panache.

#15

New mothers are extremely motivated to take care of their babies, and they are extremely sensitive to baby cues. They want to know what to do at all times, and they will do anything to help their children.

#16

The mother brain is also different from other people’s brains, and this difference is noticeable even after the baby is born.