{"product_id":"9-months-in-9-months-out-a-scientists-tale-of-pregnancy-and-parenthood-by-vanessa-lobou","title":"9 Months in 9 Months Out: A Scientist's Tale of Pregnancy and Parenthood by Vanessa Lobou","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMy new favorite book genre is personal\/scientific books written by academics. Like the book \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNever Enough\u003c\/em\u003e by Judith Grisel (a book about addiction written by a former addict and current neuroscientist), this book is about being pregnant and having a baby written by a child psychologist. LoBue goes through each month citing her experiences alongside research. She covers topics like gender, breastfeeding, and language development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe most interesting thing for me was the stuff about forgetting. People naturally repress trauma as a survival technique (it would be hard to function if we were always consciously thinking about the bad things that have happened to us), and a mother’s brain does it to kind of trick us into having more kids (survival of the species). I forgot about the pain of childbirth literally the second after it was over. I was immediately thinking, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas that really that bad?? Maybe I was exaggerating.\u003c\/em\u003e Same goes for the difficult day-to-day stuff. As time goes on, you forget a lot of the particulars and mostly just miss when they were a baby (remembering the cute stuff over the bad stuff). And she writes about in the afterward–even two years later you forget a lot of the things that you went through with an infant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnyway–point is, all I could think throughout reading the book is that I want another baby.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ten Dollar Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51596226035879,"sku":"ccg1792672575251","price":7.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/0160\/8871\/files\/9-months-in-9-months-out-a-scientists-tale-of-pregnancy-and-parenthood-by-vaness_1.jpg?v=1792672583","url":"https:\/\/reedcatcollar.shop\/products\/9-months-in-9-months-out-a-scientists-tale-of-pregnancy-and-parenthood-by-vanessa-lobou","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}