Mommy Science Blog
Playing With Me
I skimmed social media looking for news as I usually do in the morning when a video popped up and started playing all on its own. It was one of those grainy doorbell videos like the ones people in my neighborhood post of coyotes, which I usually scroll, but the...
The Power of a Compliment
This post classes most of what I would consider as ordinary celebratory interactions with a baby as “compliments.” I think Loren Jones on to something. https://babyfixes.com/how-to-compliment-a-baby/
This is my driveway, and that is a Tarantula.
It's a good thing I'm not easily flapped.
Mush Brain may be a Feature
In MOMMY SCIENCE I discuss the mush brain I had when I nursed my newborns. For me, the newborn care cycle involved a two-hour round of getting up to tend the baby. The tasks were simple enough, because he was healthy. The interrupted sleep wore me...
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...