Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? The Surprising Science of Pregnancy

by Pincott, Jena

• ISBN13: 9781439183342
• ISBN10: 1439183341
• Edition: Original
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-11
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

Where Baby Mama meets#xA0;the Discovery Channel, a bright book of#xA0;brain candy#xA0;about the wild science behind pregnancy.

Author Biography

Jena Pincott has a background in biology and worked on the production of science documentaries for PBS. A former senior editor at Random House, her own published books include Do Gentlemen Really Prefer Blondes?: Bodies, Behavior, and Brainss-The Science Behind Love, Sex, and Attraction; and Success. She lives in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Stretch Marks, Shrunken Brains, And a most Surprising Smell
Science Behind the Symptoms	p. 1
Is There a Purpose to Morning Sickness?	p. 5
Do Girls Make Us Sicker?	p. 8
Why Does Poddy-to-be Stink?	p. 9
Love in the Time of Germophobla	p. 12
Do We Smell Pregnant?	p. 13
What's Changing Our Looks?	p. 16
Is the Fetus Tinkering with Our Brain?	p. 21
Why Are Our Dreams More Vivid?	p. 26
Do Fetuses Dream?	p. 29
Skinny Chicks, Bossy Broads, and a Basketball in the Belly
The Biology of Boy-or-Girl	p. 30
Could Girls (or Boys) Run in Some Families?	p. 34
Do Skinny Chicks Have More Daughters?	p. 38
Double X or Bust?	p. 41
Do Bossy Broads Have More Sons?	p. 42
The Truth about Basketballs and Watermelons	p. 45
Why Would Girls Prefer Pink?	p. 46
Fat Rats, Salmon-and-Soy Suppers, and why Grandma's diet matters
Food and the Fetus	p. 50
Can Mom's Diet Affect Baby's Genes?	p. 52
The Badness of BPA	p. 56
Can We Eat Too Much for Two?	p. 57
Why Grandma's (and Grandpa's) Diet Matters	p. 62
Do Piscivores Really Have Brainier Babies?	p. 64
Sooty and Brains 68
Will Who We Eat Now Influence Baby's Tastes Later?	p. 70
Is a Little Tipple Really So Terrible?	p. 73
Pudgy Hubbies, Man Boobs and a theory about the Daddy Gene
A Daddyology	p. 77
Why Is Hubby Getting Sick and Chubby?	p. 79
Does Our Scent Affect Our Partner Subconsciously?	p. 83
Can Men Breast-feed?	p. 86
Fatherly Faces	p. 90
Is There a Daddy Gene?	p. 91
Is Pregnancy Naturally a Turn-Off?	p. 94
Could Sex Prevent Miscarriage?	p. 97
Mama's boys, Greedy Fetusus, and why everyone thinks the baby looks like dad
On Genes and Biases	p. 99
What Makes the Fetus Greedy?	p. 101
Who Controls Baby's Brain?	p. 103
What Genes Do Babies Inherit - from Mom Only?	p. 104
Tracking Our Foremothers	p. 107
How Are All Sons Mama's Boys?	p. 108
Do Men Prefer Babies Who Resemble Them?	p. 109
Will the Baby Really Look More Like Dad?	p. 113
Do Grandparents (Unconsciously) Play Favorites?	p. 116
Frazzled Fetuses, Snooping Geniuses, and why chocolate lovers have sweeter babies
Prenatal Predictors	p. 120
What Do Fetuses Learn by Eavesdropping?	p. 123
What Can Mozart (or Any Other Music) Really Do?	p. 126
Will Exercise Strengthen Baby's Mind?	p. 129
Could Fetuses Thrive on Stress?	p. 133
How Fetuses Calm Us	p. 141
Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?	p. 142
Do Fidgety Fetuses Become Feisty Kids?	p. 147
What Does Baby's Birth Season Predict?	p. 151
What Can We Forecast from a Fetus's Fingers?	p. 155
Eve's Legacy, Nipple power, and the Golden Hour
Some Science of the Maternity Ward	p. 158
Is There a Purpose to Painful Birth?	p. 162
The Science" of Squat	p. 165
Do White Mamas Have Longer Pregnancies?	p. 165
Is Daddy Delaying Us?	p. 167
Can We Induce Ourselves?	p. 168
Why Does Labor (Often) Strike at Night?	p. 171
What Happens In the Golden Hour after Birth?	p. 173
Why Is Baby Born Blue-Eyed?	p. 177
Are We Strangers to Our Newborns?	p. 178
Why My Baby Smells Sweeter	p. 180
Do We Really Forget the Pain?	p. 181
Mommy Brain, Mood Milk, and the Weird half-life of cells the baby left behind
A Postpartumology	p. 184
Do Mommies Have Better Brains?	p. 188
Why My Baby Is Cutest	p. 194
Is Maternal Instinct Shaped in Infancy?	p. 195
Why Do We Speak Motherese?	p. 199
Why Are We Stricken with Colic and Depression?	p. 202
Why We're Lefties When We Cradle	p. 205
What's Living in Our Milk (and Why)?	p. 206
Are Breast-fed Babies Really Brainier?	p. 211
Does Nursing Really Cause Sag?	p. 214
Is Milk a Mood Manipulator?	p. 215
Is Our Sweat Sexy?	p. 219
What Do Fetuses Leave Behind?	p. 220
Lessons from the lab
A Summary of Practical Tips	p. 224
Sources	p. 237
Acknowledgments	p. 257
Index	p. 259
About The Author	p. 269
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