Brain-Heart-Body Connections When Feeding Babies with Chelsea Conaboy

LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE

Do you feel like your brain has changed since you had your baby or started having kids? It has! Chelsea Conaboy is a journalist and author of the book Mother Brain: How Neuroscience is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood. In this interview Chelsea explains what scientists know about how our brain changes when we have children, and how to handle feelings of anxiety and fear when you are starting solid foods with your baby.

SUMMARY OF EPISODE

In this episode we’re talking about:

• How to make parenting decisions that are right for your kid (and not anybody else’s)

• What changes our brains are going through as move through parenting

• How your fear of starting solid foods can be redirected so it helps you

ABOUT THE GUEST

• Chelsea Conaboy is a journalist, author and mother of 2

• Her book Mother Brain explains the neuroscience of parenting and how the experience changes our brains

• She was incredibly fearful about starting solid foods with her oldest and shares how she got past that

LINKS FROM EPISODE

• Get Chelea Conaboy’s book MOTHER BRAIN here: https://motherbrainbook.com/

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TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE

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