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The theme of transformation is central to Abigail Tucker s
Mom Genes.
When women give birth and become mothers, writes Tucker, who is a science writer and mother of four, they rebuilt from the ground up as they undergo a radical self-revision that involves a monomaniacal focus on the baby.
Hormone and brain-based changes drive this transformation and make a mother, she writes. New moms derive intense pleasure from their infant, experience heightened sensitivity to cues and signals coming from the baby, and are overtaken with a need to help and protect the baby at all costs.
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