With her second child growing larger by the day, Liz is experiencing the tyranny of her pregnancy. Her belly seems impossibly huge to her. Easy sleep is a distant memory now that she must contend with tens of pounds of extra girth. With belching and heartburn following every meal, she feels as if she is subsisting on a diet of small volcanoes.

But Liz is not just any late-term mother-to-be. She is also a neuroscientist studying the changes that occur in a mother’s brain—in fact, she co-authored this article. Although it will not relieve her indigestion, she derives some comfort from a new and growing body of research that is revealing the marked and generally positive alterations that accrue to a mother’s brain.

This article was originally published with the title Maternal Mentality.

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1. 1. Raghuvanshi1 12:19 AM 6/30/11

   Most tragic phenomenon is modern women do not understand importance of breast feeding which enhance pure joy and self-satisfaction of both child and mother.Many modern women hate to feed child breast most of mother gather breast milk in bottle that they give to their child.In America most of these bottle imported from Switzerland and 99 p.c.women of America used them..to keep shape and beauty of their breast.why nature given to women breast? only for children`s suck.that one is healthy for both women and child . both are getting pure joy and self- satisfaction.I firmly believed that mankind borne to only getting pure joy and self-satisfaction nature given us only this gift.

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