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 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...

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...