A Smarter Way to Understand Your Baby

A science-based guide to understanding your newborn and learning what works for your unique baby.

The Problem Parents Face

Every parent hears the same thing: “They don’t come with a manual.” Instead, new parents are flooded with advice—much of it contradictory. Mommy Science offers a different approach.

Instead of memorizing rules, parents learn how to observe their baby, experiment with solutions, and discover what works.

What You’ll Learn
Inside Mommy Science you’ll discover:

The five essential things every parent needs to know when bringing a baby home
How babies learn behavior long before they can talk
How to calm a fussy baby and understand what they need
Why every baby is different—and how to learn what makes yours unique
How parents themselves change and grow during early parenthood

The Core Idea: Babies Are Scientists

From the moment they arrive, babies are constantly experimenting:

If I cry, what happens?
If I smile, what happens?
If I reach for something, what happens?

They are learning how the world works.

Mommy Science teaches parents how to work with that process instead of feeling overwhelmed by it.

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Coming Spring 2027

"It's a wonderful new take on a daunting task of learning to be a good parent."

—Paul Steinkoenig, former psychotherapist

"...encourages moms to simply relax, pay attention, and view motherhood as a series of adjustments or scientific experiments."

—Gina Simmons Schneider, Ph.D., Author of Frazzlebrain: Break Free from Anxiety, Anger, and Stress Using Advanced Discoveries in Neuropsychology.

About Valerie

Author, Scientist, Lawyer, Mother

I am a scientist by training, and had my life all arranged, when I found out I was pregnant and came unglued. My Mom, my Grandma, and my aunts steadied me and taught me how to learn what I needed to know for each child. At the time, I had no idea what solid theoreticians these “just plain folks” were, nor how fortunate I was. I applied my scientific background with their training, and further discovered evidence that the scientific method, which I had once thought was a product of brilliant adult minds, is inherent to tiny babies.

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The Power of Observation

I sat in my pediatrician’s office for a follow-up after my second son, Daniel, had been hospitalized overnight. Dr. Klebanow, the named doctor for the practice, asked me to recount what happened. A few days before, Daniel had wakened up acting wrong. He just...

Mommy Science is Foundational

MOMMY SCIENCE deals with the first few weeks and months of a baby’s life. It describes a newborn and the very earliest steps of learning and unlearning, as parent and baby learn about one another. It also describes changes in a new parent, particularly the...

Why This Book

I am a scientist by training, and had my life all arranged, when I found out I was pregnant and came unglued. My Mom, my Grandma and my aunts steadied me, and taught me how to learn what I needed to know for each child. At the time, I had no idea what...

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