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| Introduction | |
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| Stretch Marks, Shrunken Brains, And a most Surprising Smell | |
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| Science Behind the Symptoms | |
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| Is There a Purpose to Morning Sickness? | |
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| Do Girls Make Us Sicker? | |
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| Why Does Poddy-to-be Stink? | |
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| Love in the Time of Germophobla | |
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| Do We Smell Pregnant? | |
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| What's Changing Our Looks? | |
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| Is the Fetus Tinkering with Our Brain? | |
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| Why Are Our Dreams More Vivid? | |
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| Do Fetuses Dream? | |
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| Skinny Chicks, Bossy Broads, and a Basketball in the Belly | |
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| The Biology of Boy-or-Girl | |
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| Could Girls (or Boys) Run in Some Families? | |
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| Do Skinny Chicks Have More Daughters? | |
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| Double X or Bust? | |
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| Do Bossy Broads Have More Sons? | |
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| The Truth about Basketballs and Watermelons | |
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| Why Would Girls Prefer Pink? | |
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| Fat Rats, Salmon-and-Soy Suppers, and why Grandma's diet matters | |
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| Food and the Fetus | |
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| Can Mom's Diet Affect Baby's Genes? | |
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| The Badness of BPA | |
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| Can We Eat Too Much for Two? | |
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| Why Grandma's (and Grandpa's) Diet Matters | |
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| Do Piscivores Really Have Brainier Babies? | |
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| Sooty and Brains 68 | |
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| Will Who We Eat Now Influence Baby's Tastes Later? | |
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| Is a Little Tipple Really So Terrible? | |
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| Pudgy Hubbies, Man Boobs and a theory about the Daddy Gene | |
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| A Daddyology | |
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| Why Is Hubby Getting Sick and Chubby? | |
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| Does Our Scent Affect Our Partner Subconsciously? | |
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| Can Men Breast-feed? | |
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| Fatherly Faces | |
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| Is There a Daddy Gene? | |
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| Is Pregnancy Naturally a Turn-Off? | |
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| Could Sex Prevent Miscarriage? | |
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| Mama's boys, Greedy Fetusus, and why everyone thinks the baby looks like dad | |
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| On Genes and Biases | |
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| What Makes the Fetus Greedy? | |
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| Who Controls Baby's Brain? | |
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| What Genes Do Babies Inherit - from Mom Only? | |
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| Tracking Our Foremothers | |
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| How Are All Sons Mama's Boys? | |
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| Do Men Prefer Babies Who Resemble Them? | |
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| Will the Baby Really Look More Like Dad? | |
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| Do Grandparents (Unconsciously) Play Favorites? | |
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| Frazzled Fetuses, Snooping Geniuses, and why chocolate lovers have sweeter babies | |
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| Prenatal Predictors | |
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| What Do Fetuses Learn by Eavesdropping? | |
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| What Can Mozart (or Any Other Music) Really Do? | |
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| Will Exercise Strengthen Baby's Mind? | |
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| Could Fetuses Thrive on Stress? | |
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| How Fetuses Calm Us | |
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| Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? | |
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| Do Fidgety Fetuses Become Feisty Kids? | |
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| What Does Baby's Birth Season Predict? | |
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| What Can We Forecast from a Fetus's Fingers? | |
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| Eve's Legacy, Nipple power, and the Golden Hour | |
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| Some Science of the Maternity Ward | |
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| Is There a Purpose to Painful Birth? | |
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| The Science" of Squat | |
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| Do White Mamas Have Longer Pregnancies? | |
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| Is Daddy Delaying Us? | |
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| Can We Induce Ourselves? | |
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| Why Does Labor (Often) Strike at Night? | |
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| What Happens In the Golden Hour after Birth? | |
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| Why Is Baby Born Blue-Eyed? | |
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| Are We Strangers to Our Newborns? | |
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| Why My Baby Smells Sweeter | |
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| Do We Really Forget the Pain? | |
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| Mommy Brain, Mood Milk, and the Weird half-life of cells the baby left behind | |
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| A Postpartumology | |
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| Do Mommies Have Better Brains? | |
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| Why My Baby Is Cutest | |
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| Is Maternal Instinct Shaped in Infancy? | |
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| Why Do We Speak Motherese? | |
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| Why Are We Stricken with Colic and Depression? | |
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| Why We're Lefties When We Cradle | |
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| What's Living in Our Milk (and Why)? | |
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| Are Breast-fed Babies Really Brainier? | |
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| Does Nursing Really Cause Sag? | |
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| Is Milk a Mood Manipulator? | |
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| Is Our Sweat Sexy? | |
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| What Do Fetuses Leave Behind? | |
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| Lessons from the lab | |
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| A Summary of Practical Tips | |
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| Sources | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |
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| About The Author | |